Frank Wickström
Software Developer at Zefort
Turku, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolFrank Wickström is a pragmatic software developer and former technology leader with 13 years of experience building SaaS and cloud-native solutions, currently focused on Python/Django back-end work and occasional React front-end at Zefort. He has progressed from hands-on development to CTO/CTOO roles where he led DevOps transformations, hiring, and operational optimization while still shipping code and building tools like the DevOps utility Kólga. Known for blunt, solution-first communication, he favors fixing problems over preserving the status quo and takes pride in delivering results in small, agile teams. An active contributor to open-source Django tooling, his commits improve compatibility across Django versions and modernize models and user handling. Based in Turku, Finland, he pairs academic training (MSc Computer Science) with practical experience across startups and research projects, bringing both technical depth and operational discipline.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Åbo AkademiKimitoöns Gymnasium
Swedish, English, Finnish
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Github Skills (7)
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modello10
python10
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modeling10
django10
database-design8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
justquick/django-activity-stream
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site. Users can follow any actors' activities for personalized streams.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `django-activity-stream` project. Their commits focused on resolving import issues related to Django versions, removing redundant imports, and adding missing ones. They also refactored code to use Django's `AUTH_USER_MODEL` and used `getattr` to get the username field, improving the codebase. Additionally, they addressed model retrieval issues by using `app.get_model`.
personalizedfollowjavascriptstreamsgeneric
andersinno/create-react-app-ai
Oct 2017 - May 2022
Create React apps using typescript with no build configuration.
Contributions:7 PRs, 54 pushes, 51 branches in 4 years 8 months
react-appsreactbuild-configurationcreate-reactno-build
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