Tim Kurvers
Platform Engineer
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolTim Kurvers is a Platform Engineer with 15 years of experience building web solutions from small sites to full-scale experience centers, currently based in Oslo. He blends domain modelling, API design and full-stack development with platform-focused work at Appfarm, and previously held senior and full-stack roles at NRK and Hyper. An avid open-source contributor, Tim has improved core libraries across ecosystems—from AS3 signal handling to TCP-backed file-listening in the Listen gem—and adapts systems to be more portable and maintainable. Outside product work he experiments with WebGL, reverse engineering and browser-hosted game projects (ReDota, Wowser, Spelunker), bringing unusual technical curiosities into practical prototypes and coding challenges.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Bachelor of IT at Avans University of Applied SciencesA-Level, A-Level at Dendron CollegeOnder de Linde
Dutch, Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (15)
ruby-rails10
data-mapping10
rails10
refactoring10
object-mapping10
orm10
back-end-development10
networking10
tcp10
ruby10
mongoid9
mongodb9
activerecord9
json9
database-design8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
guard/listen
Sep 2013 - May 2014
The Listen gem listens to file modifications and notifies you about the changes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim implemented core functionalities related to TCP communication for the `listen` gem. Their work included creating a TCP broadcaster, defining message formats, and implementing a TCP listener. They also added functionalities to receive changes over TCP, and introduced a mechanism to broadcast file system modifications over TCP, demonstrating a focus on network-based file monitoring.
notifiesruby-gemrailsmodificationsruby
robertpenner/as3-signals
Aug 2011 - Sep 2011
Signals is a new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of the as3-signals library. Their contributions include removing unused code, correcting parameter orders in documentation, and addressing merge conflicts. They made improvements to the core signal handling logic, including the `Slot`, `Signal`, `OnceSignal`, `DeluxeSignal` and `NativeSignal` classes, contributing to the overall maintainability and stability of the library. The user also fixed an import for a `TextField` class.
eventsapproachas3signalsslots
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