Johan Linåker
Senior Researcher at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Greater Malmö Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolJohan Linåker is a Senior Researcher and software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in open source strategy, digital sovereignty, and collaborative public-sector data initiatives. Based in Malmö, he leads the €2M OSAwards.EU Horizon CSA project and facilitates national networks to help industry and government adopt and govern open source software and data. With a PhD in Software Engineering and roles ranging from academia to industry (including Axis and IKEA), he combines rigorous research—co-supervising PhD students and lecturing—with hands-on strategy and implementation. Johan also founded an open-source social startup focused on SDGs and has applied social network analysis to OSS communities during visiting research stints in Canada, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth, policy impact, and community-building.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Software Engineering at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Swedish, English, German, Danish
Github Skills (10)
discoverability8
data-mining6
machine-learning5
data-visualization4
metadata3
analytics3
translation2
localization2
visualization2
collaboration1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johanlinaker/StakeViz
May 2017 - May 2018
A tool for analysis and visualization of stakeholders involved in Open Source Software communities
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year
open-source-softwaredata-visualizationcommunitiesvisualization
johanlinaker/data-universe
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 21 days
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