Lars Wikman
Board Member at Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Sweden
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Top SchoolLars Wikman is a Sweden-based software founder and board member who builds full-stack web systems with a strong focus on Elixir, bringing over a decade of hands-on development and consulting experience. As founder of Underjord he publishes a newsletter, blog and YouTube channel and helps companies hire and raise their profile in the Elixir ecosystem; he also contributes to notable open-source projects like changelog.com, adding features such as transcript search indexing and episode management. He currently serves on the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board and chairs Goatmire International, blending community stewardship with pragmatic engineering leadership. Trained in cognition and library/information science, he pairs an interest in information architecture with a candid, often humorous public persona he intentionally keeps separate from client work.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Göteborgs universitet
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
elixir10
phoenix-liveview10
phoenix-framework10
apache-phoenix10
algolia9
test-unit8
exunit8
cms8
unit-testing8
datepicker6
django-templates6
php6
drupal6
jquery6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
thechangelog/changelog.com
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Changelog makes world-class developer pods. This is our open source platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lars implemented and enhanced features related to episode and news item management within the changelog.com platform. Their contributions included implementing transcript search indexing, adding functionality for declining episode requests with messages, and integrating a Metacasts feature with a filtering DSL to manage episode feeds. They also made improvements to email notifications and the EpisodeTracker, demonstrating involvement in both core application logic and background processes.
cmspodcastingchangelogpodcastelixir
pappersverk/inky
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
A library for managing Inky e-ink displays from Elixir.
Contributions:3 reviews, 46 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 2 months
scenicpimoronidisplaysnerveselixir
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