Tomas Hellström is a versatile software engineer and architect with nine years of professional experience building full-stack systems, modernizing legacy codebases, and designing protocols. Based in Greater Stockholm, he has led the architecture and development of UI platforms and expert underwriting systems, working across Java, Kotlin, C#, TypeScript, and front-end technologies. He contributes to open source—improving the V programming language’s time module with microsecond precision and cross-platform support—demonstrating attention to low-level system details. A KTH computer science graduate, Tomas pairs pragmatic hands-on implementation with thoughtful protocol and platform design, and balances his technical life as a dedicated dad and hobbyist developer.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Natural Sciences Mathematics and Computer Science, Natural Sciences Mathematics and Computer Science at Staffangymnasiet, Söderhamn
Bachelor of Science: Technology - Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science: Technology - Computer Science Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:19 reviews, 26 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tomas primarily focused on enhancing the `time` module of the V programming language. They added microsecond precision to the `Time` struct and implemented new functions for time operations. The user also fixed the ISO8601 parser and addressed issues related to UTC time. Their contributions included platform-specific time implementations for Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Darwin, demonstrating a deep understanding of the underlying system calls.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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