Johan Nielsen
2025 Current Product Owner For A System Design Team at Volvo Cars
Gothenburg, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Nielsen is a product-focused systems leader with 12+ years driving connected vehicle services and a 25-year engineering background from Ericsson to Volvo Cars. He currently leads system design and backlog prioritization for high-profile Volvo programs, previously orchestrating the in-housing and cloud migration of Volvo on Call across multiple teams and partners. Johan blends deep telecom and O&M expertise with product strategy—designing distributed node-to-cloud architectures and defining what data to gather, process, and expose for business value. He’s tech-savvy and hands-on (including open-source contributions to the popular Understrap WordPress starter), comfortable moving between code, cloud and strategic roadmaps. A pragmatic visionary, he thrives in multicultural teams and leverages that diversity to unlock better solutions for autonomous driving, telematics, IoT and sustainable smart-city initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Brussels High School, Brussels, IL, USAMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Uppsala University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (13)
gulp10
bootstra10
starter-kit10
wordpress-themes10
bootstrap10
sc9
javascript9
scs9
php8
css8
html8
front-end-development8
woocommerce7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
understrap/understrap
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
Underscores + Bootstrap = Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 39 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Johan primarily focused on updating and improving the Understrap WordPress theme. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to container types and asset copying, addressing deprecation notices in WooCommerce, and updating the gulpfile to incorporate new features like revving. They also implemented a new pagination system and made updates to the functions and enqueue files to reflect these changes. These updates demonstrate a focus on improving the theme's functionality and maintaining compatibility with the latest versions of its dependencies.
bootstrap-wordpresswordpress-starterwordpress-frameworkunderstrapwordpress-theme
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