Fredrik Averpil
Senior Software Engineer at Einride
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolFredrik Averpil is a senior software engineer with 15+ years of professional Python experience, now building backend and platform systems for electric and autonomous freight at Einride. He designs and operates scalable, cloud-native services (GCP, Spanner, gRPC, Pub/Sub) while also contributing to SRE standards and reliability tooling. Throughout his career he’s shipped everything from embedded-device test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to realtime event-driven APIs and internal developer experience libraries. A committed Pythonista and open source contributor, he co-developed the widely used Qt.py shim that eased migration between Qt bindings in VFX studios worldwide. He’s increasingly exploring compiled, statically typed languages like Go and Rust to broaden his systems programming toolkit. Expect a pragmatic engineer who balances clean code, performance and automation with a strong focus on deployability and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Graphics, BSc Computer Graphics at Luleå University of TechnologyDesign Technologist New Media, Design Technologist New Media at Hyper Island
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (13)
pyside10
pyqt10
shim10
python10
multiline6
google-cloud-storage6
multi-line-string6
docker6
macos6
bash6
gsutil6
postgresql6
travis-ci6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
mottosso/Qt.py
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Minimal Python 2 & 3 shim around all Qt bindings - PySide, PySide2, PyQt4 and PyQt5.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 252 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Fredrik primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Python library that provides a shim around Qt bindings. Their contributions included adding and modifying code related to loading and managing different Qt binding versions such as PyQt4, PyQt5, PySide, and PySide2. The commits also involved fixing issues, adding docstrings for clarity, and updating the versioning of the library, showcasing a focus on cross-platform compatibility and usability. Furthermore, the user addressed specific issues, adding functionality to load user interface files.
pyside2pythonpyside6shimqt5
fredrikaverpil/github
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Reusable workflows, composite actions, templates
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 311 pushes in 15 days
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