Karl-petter Åkesson
Platform Engineer
Åre, Jämtland County, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorKarl-petter Åkesson is a platform engineer with 14 years of experience building distributed systems and IoT solutions, now contributing to SJ AB’s Azure-based cloud platform. He blends deep systems-level expertise in C/C++ and embedded development with modern application work in Ruby, JavaScript and cloud platforms, shaped by a long history of research and productisation at SICS and the Interactive Institute. As founder of YellowOrb he has led numerous embedded and design projects, and he brings hands-on experience across Unix and Windows environments. Based in Åre, Sweden, he pairs a practical engineering mindset with an interest in human–computer interaction and multi-user systems—an unusual combination that helps bridge hardware constraints and user-centered software.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish, English, German
Stackoverflow
381reputation
48kreached
6answers
12questions
Github Skills (64)
custom-component10
ide10
home-assistant-integration9
remote-administration-tool9
esphome9
arduino9
arduino-ide9
api-authentication9
e-ink8
wysiwyg8
lcd8
ruby7
bash7
hmac-sha5127
remote-control7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
karl-petter/api_auth
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years
ruby-on-railshmac-authenticationrailsauthenticationruby
YellowOrb/arduino-restclient
Nov 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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