Axel Yun
Software Engineer at Linear
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolAxel Yun is a pragmatic software engineer and people leader with 11 years of experience building and shipping products across web and mobile, currently engineering at Linear from Gothenburg. He has led teams and roadmaps as an Engineering Manager at mobile.dev, improving delivery processes, SOC 2 compliance, and customer success for Maestro Cloud while still contributing hands-on to frontend and mobile testing tooling. His work spans full-stack features, CI integrations (notably a GitHub Action for Maestro), SSO, and native testing enhancements—he contributed swipe gesture support and integration tests to the open-source Maestro mobile automation project. Known for removing blockers and aligning stakeholders, he pairs operational rigor with a penchant for simple, effective process improvements that reduce cycle time. Comfortable in both startup and large-scale environments (Uber, Ookla), he blends mentoring and architectural influence with day-to-day coding. Outside core product work he’s shipped broadcast graphics and tooling from his consultancy days, reflecting a creative, multidisciplinary approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Science programme Mathematics and computer science, Science programme Mathematics and computer science at Birger SjöberggymnasietSoftware Engineering Computer Systems and Networks, Software Engineering Computer Systems and Networks at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English, German
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Github Skills (12)
ui-automation10
javas10
ios10
mobile-development10
android10
java10
yaml9
kotlin9
django-custom-user6
alias6
python6
django6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mobile-dev-inc/Maestro
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Painless E2E Automation for Mobile and Web
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:251 reviews, 22 commits, 156 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Axel primarily contributed to the mobile testing framework Maestro by adding functionality for swipe gestures. They implemented the swipe command, integrating it into the YAML configuration and the core execution logic. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the iOS and Android driver implementations, supporting the new swipe functionality and enhancing existing testing capabilities. The user also contributed to the testing framework by creating an integration test case to validate the new swipe implementation.
mobile-developmentblackbox-testingautomation-uiandroidautomation
sspbft/BFTList
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
An implementation of a self-stabilizing replicated state machine based on failure detectors.
Contributions:103 commits, 86 PRs, 272 pushes in 4 months
pythonfailure-detectiondetectorsdistributed-systemscomputing
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