Johan Bjäreholt
Experienced Software Engineer at ActivityWatch
Lund, Sweden
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Top SchoolJohan Bjäreholt is an experienced software engineer with 12 years in embedded and Linux development, currently building efficient video, audio and metadata streaming stacks for network cameras at Axis Communications. He primarily writes C using GLib/GObject and GStreamer to optimize media pipelines on constrained embedded CPUs. Johan co-founded ActivityWatch, showing an entrepreneurial streak and sustained interest in developer tools and productivity monitoring. His background includes setting up CI/CD and compliance pipelines for automotive-grade projects at Bosch, giving him practical expertise in testing, static analysis and cross-architecture integration. Based in Lund, Sweden, he combines hands-on low-level engineering with system-level tooling experience and a knack for turning complex embedded requirements into reliable, production-ready code. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, equally comfortable debugging hardware-adjacent issues and designing maintainable software abstractions.
13 years of coding experience
TunaskolanBachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering at Blekinge tekniska högskolaTechnology Prgramme, Technology Prgramme at Polhemskolan
Swedish, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (182)
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backend10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-sway
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
johan-bjareholt/TorStatus
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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