Jesper Weissglas
Principal Technical Director at Eidra
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJesper Weissglas is a Principal Technical Director and systems architect in Stockholm with 14 years of professional software experience and a career that spans embedded robotics, large-scale streaming media, and consumer-facing web and mobile products. He uniquely bridges electronics and computer science with advertising and brand strategy, regularly translating between C-level stakeholders, marketing teams, and engineers to turn strategic goals into executable technical roadmaps. Jesper combines hands-on coding and UI work—evidenced by contributions to projects like the OpenCPN navigator and Ant Design—with team-building and program-level delivery at companies such as Ericsson Broadcast and H&M. He has founded and scaled agencies and startups, led profitable web-TV launches, and even designed and delivered a custom yacht project, demonstrating rare technical depth paired with operational and creative leadership. Known for moving fluidly from executive alignment to mentoring junior developers, he excels at turning complex cross-functional challenges into tangible products.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M Sc EE, Mathematics and Electromagnetics, M Sc EE, Mathematics and Electromagnetics at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMBA (unfinished), Economics, MBA (unfinished), Economics at Stockholm School of EconomicsScience, Science at Djursholms Samskola
English, French, Swedish, Estonian, Spanish, German
Github Skills (15)
uid10
typescript10
c-language10
component-library10
typescripts10
lessc10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
ant-design-pro10
localization9
user-interface9
javascript8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
OpenCPN/OpenCPN
Sep 2011 - Dec 2012
A concise ChartPlotter/Navigator. A cross-platform ship-borne GUI application supporting * GPS/GPDS Postition Input * BSB Raster Chart Display * S57 Vector ENChart Display * AIS Input Decoding * Waypoint Autopilot Navigation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:229 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesper implemented several key features related to chart visibility and user interface functionality. The code changes added hotkeys for managing the visibility of soundings, lights, and rocks in the charting application. Furthermore, the user fixed issues with font rendering in AIS dialogs and incorporated changes related to track merging, indicating contributions to both data management and user experience within the navigation software.
shiprastergarminwaypointgps-tracker
ant-design/ant-design
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 41 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesper primarily contributed to the UI library by fixing bugs and adding features related to the `Form`, `Rate`, and `TimePicker` components. They addressed overlapping graphics issues within the Form component and implemented features to support the Swedish locale including locale provider and date/time pickers. The user also introduced styling changes to the Rate component, and added inputReadOnly functionality to TimePicker.
reactlanguage-designant-designui-libraryantd
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