Thorbjørn Hermansen
Developer at Drifti
Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolThorbjørn Hermansen is a pragmatic full-stack developer with 16 years of experience building web applications across TypeScript, Ember, React, Ruby (Rails, Hanami), PHP and Node.js, backed by solid SQL and Elasticsearch skills. He has delivered product-focused features at startups and agencies, from interactive mapping and business-directory platforms to modern Rails and single-page apps. Currently at Drifti after a decade at Skalar, he combines hands-on engineering with an appreciation for open source practices and pragmatic architecture. Thorbjørn has contributed to the Ruby ecosystem—improving JSON API document rendering in the trailblazer/roar project—showing attention to API correctness and edge cases. Based in Norway with a Bachelor in IT, he thrives on translating good ideas into reliable, maintainable software.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, IT, Bachelor, IT at Høgskolen i Oslo (HiO)
Norwegian, English
Stackoverflow
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4questions
ruby
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
api-rest10
rest-api10
json-api10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
rspec8
minitest8
unit-test8
actionmailer6
passenger6
nginx6
php6
apache6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
trailblazer/roar
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Parse and render REST API documents using representers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thorbjørn primarily contributed to the `roar/roar` repository, which focuses on parsing and rendering REST API documents. Their work involved modifications to the JSON API representation, including removing debugging calls, and enhancing collection rendering to handle non-unique included entities. The user also implemented changes to skip attributes when entities are included in JSON API relationships, refining the document structure and adherence to JSON API specifications. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the JSON API representation of the data.
renderapirepresentersrestrest-api
Skalar/ink_file_picker
Mar 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 1 month
ruby-clientrubyfile-pickerinkpicker
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