Håkan Edling
Principal Product Manager at Piranha CMS
Västerås, Västmanland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolHåkan Edling is a Principal Product Manager at Optimizely and a seasoned engineer with nearly 25 years in software, 14 years in product development, and deep expertise in CMS design and architecture. He founded and leads Piranha CMS, a popular open-source .NET CMS project he has maintained since 2011, reflecting his commitment to community-driven tooling and developer ergonomics. His background spans hands-on C# system development, technical leadership roles, and inbound product management, giving him a rare blend of engineering fluency and product strategy. A Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, he routinely bridges developer experience with product priorities to ship pragmatic, maintainable platforms. Based in Västerås, Sweden, he combines formal computer science training with an unusual side interest in music theory and composition, which informs his systematic yet creative approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Music Theory and Composition, Music Theory and Composition at CarlforsskaComputer Science, Computer Science at Uppsala University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (156)
cms10
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asp-net-core10
webpages10
asp-net10
ember10
markdown10
javascript10
cqrs10
linux10
dotnet10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WouterLeenders/Piranha
Jul 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 3 months
cmsdevelopingpiranhaweb-basedasp-net
PiranhaCMS/piranha.core.docs
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Official documentation for Piranha CMS
Contributions:3 reviews, 231 commits, 68 PRs in 3 years
cmscms-frameworkdotnetpiranhaosgi
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