HaraldNordgren - Overview

🧭 Engineering Leader • āš™ļø Systems Programmer • 🐹 Go & DevOps Enthusiast

I’m a seasoned engineer with 20+ years of hands-on software experience, building everything from compilers and infrastructure tooling to distributed systems and developer platforms.

I love elegant code, strong engineering cultures, and open source.


šŸš€ Current Role – Head of Engineering @ Diet Doctor

At Diet Doctor, I lead engineering initiatives that help millions of people improve their health through better food. My focus areas include:

  • Developer experience & engineering velocity
  • Scalable backend systems
  • Product-aligned technical strategy
  • Mentoring engineers & building high-trust teams

šŸ› ļø Open Source Highlights

I've contributed to a wide array of open-source projects — from core tools millions use daily to specialized libraries powering modern developer workflows.

Below are some selected contributions:

⭐ Major Ecosystem Projects

Project Description Language
⭐ Git: Version control system C
⭐ Go: The Go programming language Go
⭐ Homebrew: Package manager Ruby
⭐ Kubernetes: Container orchestration Go
⭐ Qt: Cross-platform UI toolkit C++

šŸ”§ Developer Tools & Libraries (Go)

Project Description Language
Genqlient Genqlient: GraphQL client Go
Elastic Elasticsearch Go client Go
Testify Testify: Testing toolkit Go
Gqlgen Gqlgen: GraphQL server Go
GitHub GitHub tooling Go
OpenAI go-openai: Unofficial OpenAI client Go
Migrate Migrate: DB migrations Go
Golangci Golangci-lint Go
Revenuecat Revenuecat Go
Docker Docker Docs Go
Moq Moq Go

⚔ JavaScript / TypeScript

Project Description Language
Amplitude Amplitude RN Client TypeScript
Heroku Heroku CLI JavaScript
Sentry Sentry Wizard TypeScript
GitGitGadget Git Git Gadget JS
Google Calendar Google Calendar Chrome Extension JS
Last.fm Web-scrobbler JS

🐚 Shell & Ruby

Project Description Language
Gvm Gvm: Go version manager Shell
Oh My Zsh Oh My Zsh Shell
Travis Travis CI Docs Ruby

šŸ Python & C++

Project Description Language
qBittorrent qBittorrent C++
Cassandra Cassandra Python driver Python
Splinter Splinter Python
Nose Nose Timer Python

Explore Further

šŸ‘‰ All merged pull requests on GitHub