Krister Svanlund
Software Engineer at InRule
Gothenburg, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKrister Svanlund is a seasoned software engineer based in Gothenburg with 14 years of experience building web and desktop applications and back-end systems across C/C++, Erlang, Python, PHP and Java. He combines object-oriented and functional programming practices to design robust systems and has a particular interest in system design and exploring new tools and platforms. His career spans product-focused roles from embedded and device-related work to cloud-backed web services at companies like Heliospectra, Textalk and InRule. An active contributor to open-source, he has performed non-trivial refactors and low-level input handling fixes on widely used tooling such as xdotool, demonstrating comfort with systems-level code and portability issues. Outside of engineering he co-creates a community podcast and has hands-on experience managing finance and events from earlier roles, signaling both technical depth and practical operational skills. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Krister excels at translating complex requirements into maintainable implementations across languages and runtimes.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Introductory Course, Law, Introductory Course, Law at Mid Sweden UniversityComputer Engineer, Computer Engineer at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
c1710
x1110
gui-automation10
c1110
user-input10
command-line-tool9
linux8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jordansissel/xdotool
May 2012 - Jun 2012
fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 comment in 16 days
Contributions summary:Krister primarily focused on modifying and refactoring the xdotool code base, specifically dealing with input handling and modifier keys. Their commits involved replacing existing functions with more efficient alternatives, updating code to remove signed/unsigned conflicts, and correcting compilation warnings. They made changes to the code within multiple files including xdo.c, cmd_click.c, cmd_mousemove.c, cmd_key.c, cmd_behave_screen_edge.c and xdo.h.
window-management
KoFish/pallium
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
A Go implementation of a matrix.org homeserver
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
gohomeserver
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