Åke Wivänge
People Manager & Team Lead at Thomson Reuters
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolÅke Wivänge is a people-focused engineering leader and team lead with nine years of software experience, currently managing two development teams at Pagero (now part of Thomson Reuters) from Gothenburg. He combines hands-on technical leadership—planning, architecture decisions and pair programming—with a strong background in interaction design, ensuring user experience and visual quality remain central to delivery. Åke prioritizes coaching, career development and team health to create environments where engineers can do their best work. His career stretches from Java GUI and usability engineering to cloud-based e-invoicing services connecting ERP systems at scale, giving him rare fluency across design, UX and backend integration. He’s notable for retaining both maker instincts and people-management rigor while navigating an acquisition into a global enterprise.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Technical writing, Technical writing at Karlstad UniversityB.Sc IT and M.Sc Interaction design Information Technology and Interaction Design, B.Sc IT and M.Sc Interaction design Information Technology and Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (69)
foundry10
typescript10
vtt10
timepicker9
virtual-tabletop9
datepicker9
daterangepicker9
datetimepicker8
calculator8
datetime8
frontend8
vite8
dev-server8
daterange8
docker-desktop7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sun-dragon-cult/fvtt-system-rqg
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
Runequest Glorantha Foundry VTT system
Contributions:9 releases, 227 reviews, 763 commits in 2 years 7 months
foundryfoundry-vtt-systemvttfoundry-vtt
sun-dragon-cult/fvtt-module-wiki-rqg
Aug 2023 - May 2025
Required companion module for the RQG Foundry vtt system
Contributions:11 releases, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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