Andreas Arvidsson
Accessibility Developer at Cursorless
Uddevalla, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Arvidsson is an Accessibility Developer with a decade of software engineering experience building both back-end systems and front-end GUIs, now focused on voice-driven developer tooling. As maintainer of Cursorless and a key contributor to Talon community voice commands, he designs structurally aware spoken-language interfaces that let developers code entirely by voice. His background spans open source consultancy, academic research, and university teaching, giving him a rare mix of practical engineering, pedagogy, and systems-level thinking. Comfortable refactoring complex tokenizers and expanding multilingual voice support, he excels at turning accessibility needs into robust, well-tested features. Based in Uddevalla, Sweden, he brings a hands-on, maker mindset informed by earlier work from IP network operations to carpentry.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Karlstad UniversityHigh School, Computer Science & IT, High School, Computer Science & IT at Portalens gymnasium
English, Swedish, Norwegian
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Github Skills (27)
tokenize10
javascript10
python10
typescript10
tal10
regular-expression10
tokenizer10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
develop9
code-optimization9
vscode9
text-format8
text-formatting8
vscode-extension8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cursorless-dev/cursorless
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Don't let the cursor slow you down
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1981 reviews, 255 commits, 982 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on modifying and improving the project's core functionality, as evidenced by the extensive updates to the tokenizer. They refactored the regular expressions used for tokenization, adding support for new tokens, and ensuring correct handling of whitespace and unicode characters. The user also contributed to the project's codebase by fixing bugs and implementing key actions.
talonvoiceslowvscodevoice-codingvscode-extension
talonhub/community
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Voice command set for Talon, community-supported.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:316 reviews, 11 commits, 187 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to enhancing the voice command set for Talon, focusing on expanding language support and improving the user experience. Their work involved modifying the `code` and `lang` directories to incorporate new language features and support for various code editors like VS Code. Additionally, they updated the screenshot functionality, improving its usability and incorporating features like screen capture by number and draft editor integration.
talontalonvoicevimwindowsin-progress
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