Alexander Hjelm
Doctoral Student at Södertörns högskola
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolAlexander Hjelm is a doctoral student in political science at Södertörn University with 11 years of professional experience combining rigorous research, writing, and software contribution. He studies political theory with a focus on the individual's relationship to society in the context of human enhancement, aiming to improve the human condition through thought and action. Comfortable bridging academia and engineering, he has contributed backend tests and migration logic to an open-source Jira-to-Azure DevOps migrator, evidencing practical skills in data mapping and quality assurance. His background includes an MS and BA in Political Science from Linnaeus University, grounding his theoretical work in formal training. Colleagues would describe him as a motivated researcher who brings a playful curiosity—aptly summarized on GitHub as a “professional banana whisperer”—to serious interdisciplinary problems.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Political Science, Master of Science - MS, Political Science at Linnaeus University
Github Skills (9)
azure-devops-server10
nunit10
csharp10
jira10
azure-devops10
migration10
dotnet-core10
testing10
netcore9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
solidify/jira-azuredevops-migrator
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Tool to migrate work items from Atlassian Jira to Microsoft Azure DevOps/VSTS/TFS.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:131 releases, 74 reviews, 270 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on implementing and testing features related to work item migration between Jira and Azure DevOps. The contributions involved adding NUnit tests and smoke tests to validate the migration process. These tests cover the core logic of exporting work items from Jira and importing them into Azure DevOps, with specific attention to configuration and data mapping.
atlassiandevopsjiramicrosoft-azuretfs
qnarch/tetris-js
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Tetris client in JavaScript
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
jsjavascriptnodejsgame
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