Jakob Nilsson
Systems Librarian at Linnaeus University
Kalmar County, Sweden
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Top SchoolJakob Nilsson is a Systems Librarian with 16 years' experience building backend integrations and tooling that make scholarly information more accessible. Based at Linnaeus University since 2015, he combines hands-on backend development in Ruby and Node.js with deep knowledge of metadata workflows, Ubuntu/Linux environments and system security. He thrives on connecting external e-resources, automating metadata processes and improving user-facing services while staying close to library workflows and stakeholders. Comfortable working independently or cross-functionally with IT, healthcare and library teams, he translates complex bibliographic requirements into robust, user-friendly systems. Always curious and pragmatic, Jakob pairs a linguistics and information studies background with practical engineering to streamline access to knowledge.
16 years of coding experience
Master, Information studies, Master, Information studies at University of BoråsBachelor, General linguistics, Bachelor, General linguistics at University of Gothenburg
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (37)
plugin9
wordpress-plugin9
cache-control9
parser8
traffic8
github8
ojs8
wordpress8
git8
jetpack7
php7
science7
react7
js7
parsing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jnylin/vimmarena-js
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:159 commits, 22 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 2 months
arenaaddons
Linnaeus-University-Library/wordpress-medbib-post-expiration
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 months
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