Johan Persson
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at NASDAQ TECHNOLOGY AB
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Persson is a seasoned software leader with two decades of experience building and scaling international, multi-site engineering organizations across mobile and FinTech, now serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Nasdaq Technology. He combines deep technical roots as a former software architect and open-source participant with proven people leadership, having led teams of 250 across multiple continents and driven engineering transformations from Symbian-era platform launches to modern fintech pipelines. Johan is skilled at streamlining development processes and toolchains, applying theory-driven methodologies like Critical Chain to reduce bottlenecks while preserving team trust and technical integrity. He has entrepreneurial experience founding and exiting a successful startup and a long history of hands-on engineering, including authoring widely used PHP libraries and improving documentation for notable projects like Phing. Known for challenging C-level stakeholders constructively, he translates business goals into pragmatic technical roadmaps and measurable delivery outcomes. Based in Stockholm, he blends operational discipline with a genuine commitment to mentoring engineers and fostering horizontal communication.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Luleå University of Technology
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (8)
documentation10
xml9
docbook9
xslt8
ant7
build-automation7
build-tools7
php6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
phingofficial/phing
Jan 2012 - Aug 2013
PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:77 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Johan primarily contributed to the project by updating and expanding the documentation for various core and optional tasks within the Phing build system. Their work included fixing documentation errors, improving the layout of the HTML output, and adding content such as the initial DocBook version of the Phing guide. The commits reflect an effort to enhance the clarity and completeness of the documentation, covering topics like Relax NG grammar, code highlighting, and task attributes.
build-projectphpapachegnu-makegnu
johan162/themeltspice
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:20 releases, 63 commits, 51 pushes in 9 months
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