Henrik Akesson
Lead Product Software Engineer at Regnology
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolHenrik Akesson is a Lead Product Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering product-focused engineering solutions across fintech and research environments in Switzerland. He combines hands-on full-stack development—especially in Rust web tooling and frameworks like Leptos—with leadership in agile delivery, iteration planning, and team coaching to consistently meet deadlines and showcase individual contributors' strengths. At Wolters Kluwer and now Regnology he has driven product-quality engineering while balancing integration work and developer tooling improvements that streamline build and deploy workflows. His open-source contributions to the Leptos ecosystem include build tooling, wasm integration, and live-reload capabilities, reflecting a practical focus on developer experience and performance. Known for learning quickly and investing the time needed to turn ambitious ideas into production-ready systems, he also brings academic teaching experience in OOP and software engineering that reinforces his clarity in design and mentoring.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at HEIG-VD
English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (17)
cargo10
back-end-development10
react-ssr10
webpages10
web-content10
isomorphic10
front-end-development10
build-automation10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
rust10
reactive-programming10
backend10
sass9
axum8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leptos-rs/cargo-leptos
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Build tool for Leptos (Rust)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 150 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Henrik primarily focused on developing tooling and build processes for the Leptos framework, a Rust-based web framework. Their contributions included working on cargo commands, integrating wasm-pack for client and app builds, and optimizing SCSS compilation. Furthermore, they added support for generating HTML and Rust code, enabling client-side and server-side rendering, and implemented a watch command with reload functionality, streamlining the development workflow.
rustleptosbuild-tool
leptos-rs/leptos
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Build fast web applications with Rust.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 29 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Henrik contributed to the Leptos web framework, focusing on integrations and configuration. Their work included fixing errors in the spawn_local function and adding missing parameters to integrations with Actix and Axum. Further contributions involved adding preload directives and environment variable configurations, enhancing the framework's build process. The user also refactored code, extracting functions to improve code organization.
web-applicationsrustfine-graineddeclarativeleptos
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