Theodor Thornhill
Product Architect at TV 2
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTheodor Thornhill is a Product Architect based in Bergen, Norway, with nine years of experience designing and building high-performance distributed systems. He combines hands-on engineering and architectural leadership gained through roles from software engineer to solutions and product architect at TV 2 and other companies. An active open-source contributor to prominent Emacs LSP projects (eglot and lsp-mode), he has shipped features improving language-server integration, UTF-16 handling, and project management tooling—work that reflects attention to both developer experience and robustness. Trained in computer science at the University of Oslo and with a parallel professional background in music, he brings disciplined rigor and a creative perspective to complex technical problems. Colleagues know him for translating nuanced requirements into resilient, maintainable systems while still contributing deep implementation-level fixes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Informatikk, Informatikk at University of OsloMaster's degree Musikk, Master's degree Musikk at Norwegian Academy of Music
Github Skills (23)
tree-sitter10
typescript10
language-server-protocol10
elm10
emacs-lisp10
language-server10
emacs10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
typescripts10
csharp10
testing9
uri8
url-encoding8
project-management8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
joaotavora/eglot
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
A client for Language Server Protocol servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Theodor primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Eglot project, which is a Language Server Protocol (LSP) client. Their work included implementing new features such as a custom setting for server-initiated edits and integrating `completing-read` for code actions. Furthermore, the user improved code efficiency and robustness by addressing issues related to UTF-16 character handling and URI path conversions. They also added tests and fixed bugs.
language-server-protocol
emacs-lsp/lsp-mode
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Theodor has primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of `lsp-mode` by adding support for language servers. They added new server settings and diagnostics capabilities for the Elm language server. Additionally, the user modified the code to accommodate C# and improved integration with the fsharp language server. Several commits involved modifying the core `lsp-mode.el` file and adding support for language server features.
emacslanguage-server-protocoljavajavascriptcpp
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