Bjorn Svensson
Group Product Engineering Lead at Esri
Redlands, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBjorn Svensson is a seasoned product engineering leader with 13+ years driving front-end and platform engineering for Esri, now leading the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript as Group Product Engineering Lead. He combines deep GIS domain expertise from two decades in the industry with hands-on full-stack development experience, including meaningful open-source contributions to Esri's widely used resource-proxy across Java, .NET, and PHP. Based in Redlands, CA, he has a rare blend of product leadership, technical stewardship, and teaching experience from a visiting lecturer role at University of Redlands. Bjorn is known for turning complex geospatial requirements into robust, scalable front-end components that anchor enterprise mapping platforms. He brings academic grounding from Lund University and UC Santa Barbara to practical, cross-language engineering and long-term platform roadmaps.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at UC Santa BarbaraBS, BS at Lund University
English, Swedish, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
net10
dotnet10
proxy10
java10
asp-net10
javas10
php10
web-development-project10
web-development10
arcgis-js-api6
angular6
esri6
arcgis-server6
geojson6
javascript6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/resource-proxy
Feb 2014 - Jul 2022
Proxy files for DotNet, Java and PHP.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 200 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bjorn contributed significantly to the resource-proxy project, adding and updating proxy implementations across multiple languages (Java, .NET, and PHP). They implemented core features, including token handling and request forwarding, and addressed bug fixes related to proxy functionality. Additionally, the user made changes to improve code formatting and project documentation.
javadotnetphpproxyresource-proxy
bsvensson/test-issue-templates
May 2019 - Dec 2022
dummy repo for testing out issue templates
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
testingtemplatedummy-repoissue-templates
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