Åke Strandberg
Owner at Fryksås Fäbodlag
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolÅke Strandberg is an experienced healthcare and life-science strategist and entrepreneur with over a decade running his consulting firm Elpensi AB and a long leadership track record at Capio, including CEO of Capio St Görans Hospital and Senior VP roles. He combines deep clinical expertise—MD and PhD in anaesthesiology and intensive care—with commercial governance experience as CFO and board chair across multiple organizations. Åke has a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to transformation, advising on strategy, development and operational improvements in private care. He also contributes hands-on to open source, implementing device integration features and diagnostics for the widely used Home Assistant platform, showing a practical interest in connected health and privacy-first automation. Based in Greater Stockholm, he blends clinical credibility with entrepreneurial grit and financial stewardship. A less obvious strength is his ability to move between frontline clinical practice, executive leadership and technical implementation, making him effective at bridging clinicians, managers and engineers.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medical School, Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medical School at Karolinska InstitutetSpecialist in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Specialist in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Huddinge University HospitalPhD, Medicine, Anaesthesiology, PhD, Medicine, Anaesthesiology at Karolinska institutet
English, Danish, Swedish
Github Skills (6)
iot10
sensor10
python10
home-automation10
asyncio10
sensor-fusion10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:250 reviews, 1 commit, 140 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Åke primarily contributed to the `home-assistant/core` repository by implementing and modifying sensor and update platform components within the myuplink integration. Their work involved adding specific sensor descriptions, including unit-based and enum-based sensors, and creating a binary sensor platform. Furthermore, the user addressed reported issues such as removing soft hyphens from sensor names and added functionalities like diagnostics download and reconfiguration flows, demonstrating a focus on improving the integration's features and usability. They also worked on implementing the switch and number platforms within the myuplink integration.
home-automationpythoniotinternet-of-thingsmqtt
astrandb/senz_hass
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
SENZ WiFi integration for Home Assistant
Contributions:5 releases, 98 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year
home-assistantwifihassnventsenz
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