David Gustavsson
Research Leader at VA SYD
Greater Malmö Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolDavid Gustavsson is a research leader with 12 years of experience at the intersection of atomic-physics-trained analytical rigor and applied environmental engineering, currently leading R&D at VA SYD in the Greater Malmö area. He holds an industrial PhD and has blended academic postdoctoral work with long-term leadership roles in water research, delivering practical solutions for wastewater process control and nitrification challenges. David pairs hands-on engineering and process expertise with coding contributions to open-source scientific tooling—most notably back-end improvements to the widely used JuliaPlots/Plots.jl library that enhance visualization flexibility across backends. His career reflects a rare mix of experimental physics mindset, environmental systems thinking, and software craftsmanship that drives data-driven decision making in municipal and research settings.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Environmental Engineering, M. Sc., Environmental Engineering at Lund University
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Github Skills (10)
visualization10
visualizations10
back-end-development10
plot10
julia10
plotly7
javascript6
youtube6
regex6
java6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPlots/Plots.jl
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Powerful convenience for Julia visualizations and data analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 20 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the back-end implementation of the `plots.jl` repository. Their commits involve correcting offsets, adding polar legend positions, and modifying annotation features for bar plots. Furthermore, they've updated utility functions and integrated legend angle functionality across different backends. These modifications enhance the visualization capabilities and flexibility of the plotting library.
data-analysisjulia-languageconveniencevisualizationsdata-visualization
Datax-package/LaTeXDatax.jl
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Julia plugin for the datax LaTeX package
Contributions:5 releases, 35 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
dataxlatexlatex-packagejulia
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