Tomas Sandven
Software Engineer at Telia Norge
Møre og Romsdal, Norway
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Top SchoolTomas Sandven is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years' experience building automation and tooling for telecommunications and web analytics, currently engineering solutions at Telia Norge. He works across languages and stacks—Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, JavaScript—and is comfortable with databases (MySQL, MongoDB), caching and web servers, Docker, and infrastructure automation. At Kvantel he built address-cleaning algorithms, bulk data pipelines, and ran customer-facing DNS/SMTP services, combining backend coding with operational ownership. An active open-source contributor, he added and maintained language parsers and indentation tests for YANG and Robot Framework in the well-regarded nvim-treesitter project, showing attention to correct parsing and developer ergonomics. Based in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, he blends hands-on engineering with long-term reliability and a knack for automating repetitive telecom workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)Generell Studiekompetanse, Media and communication, Generell Studiekompetanse, Media and communication at AkademietComputer Games and Programming Skills, Computer Games and Programming Skills at NITH
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (32)
parser10
tree-sitter10
css10
neovim10
php10
parsing10
html-table10
parse10
html10
robotframework10
yang10
test-automation10
coffeescript9
javascript9
exceptions9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tomas significantly contributed to the addition and maintenance of language parsers, specifically for YANG and Robot Framework, within the nvim-treesitter project. They added new parsers and updated existing ones, including the associated queries and configuration files. Moreover, they focused on writing and fixing indentation tests, demonstrating a strong focus on ensuring the correct parsing behavior and formatting of these languages.
nvim-treesitterluatreesittertree-sittervim
Hubro/neovim-config
Jul 2021 - Oct 2024
My Neovim config
Contributions:1 PR, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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