Dick Olsson
Director of Engineering at Pfizer Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDick Olsson is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently directing DevOps engineering at Pfizer in London. He combines enterprise-scale delivery expertise from global organizations like Al Jazeera and Pfizer with a deep commitment to open source, freedom, and web privacy. As a core maintainer and initiative coordinator for Drupal, he helps steer one of the web’s largest open-source projects while bringing practical Unix and ARM-focused tooling experience. Known for bridging strategic leadership with hands-on technical work, he fosters resilient, privacy-conscious systems and developer communities. His technical design background from Sweden underpins a pragmatic, design-minded approach to infrastructure and platform challenges. Colleagues describe him as an evangelist for open standards who quietly drives governance and sustainable contributor growth.
11 years of coding experience
Technical Design, Technical Design at Västerhöjdsgymnasiet, Skövde, Sweden
Github Skills (11)
embedded10
buildroot10
sys10
makefile10
package-management10
automated-build8
python7
bitcoin6
bitcoins6
security5
git4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dickolsson/buildroot
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:57 pushes, 14 branches in 10 months
dickolsson/viralkindness
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Viral kindness cards to help your neighbour during quarantine.
Contributions:29 commits, 10 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 7 months
viralkindnessquarantine
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