David Landell
Staff Software Developer at Xperi Inc.
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Landell is a Staff Software Developer with 11 years of professional experience and over a decade working deeply in C++ on the Chromium code base for resource-constrained platforms. He has advanced browser and embedded systems expertise from long tenures at Opera, Vewd, and currently Xperi, shipping performance-sensitive features and integrations. A University of Gothenburg computer science master’s graduate, he pairs pragmatic engineering with low-level optimization skills. He also contributes to open-source tooling, for example improving build and dependency handling in the Emacs-focused cask project, reflecting an attention to build systems and reproducible workflows. Based in the Greater Gothenburg area, he focuses on solving hard platform constraints where correctness and efficiency matter most.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Gothenburg
Swedish, English
Github Skills (4)
emacs10
emacs-lisp10
package-management10
build-system9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cask/cask
Apr 2018 - Jun 2022
Project management tool for Emacs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on adjusting the Cask project to integrate with new package-build APIs. They modified the codebase to utilize package-recipe objects and update dependency handling. Furthermore, the user implemented functionalities related to timestamp retrieval, and addressed issues by removing outdated or invalid code expressions. This focused on core aspects of the project's build process.
emacsproject-management-toolmanagement-toolproject-managementemacs-lisp
dajva/rg.el-docs
Sep 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:82 pushes, 17 branches, 40 tags in 5 years 4 months
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