Johan Roxendal
Full Stack Engineer at Svenska Akademien
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolJohan Roxendal is a Full Stack Engineer with 16 years of experience building web-facing language technology and literary archives, currently developing and maintaining litteraturbanken.se for Svenska Akademien. With a BA in computational linguistics and ongoing MA studies, he blends linguistic research with practical software delivery—most notably as lead developer on The Swedish Literature Bank at Språkbanken. He is an active contributor to open standards for voice and state machines, maintaining a Python SCXML interpreter and having served as an invited expert in the W3C Voice Working Group. Johan’s stack spans Python, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Java, SCXML/VoiceXML and legacy web multimedia (ActionScript/CoffeeScript), enabling both backend corpora tooling and polished GUIs. He co-founded Spyderbrain Technologies to commercialize scalable, interactive web information systems combining RDF and NLP, showing an entrepreneurial streak alongside academic work. Based in Gothenburg, he pairs rigorous research experience with long-term product stewardship of culturally significant digital archives.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computational Linguistics, BA, Computational Linguistics at University of Gothenburg
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (142)
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rest-api10
collaboration10
hybrid10
directus10
graphql-api10
javascript10
corpus10
no-code10
nuxt-template10
api10
ims10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Litteraturbanken/littb-frontend
Nov 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 193 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 5 months
jroxendal/PySCXML
Nov 2009 - Jan 2013
Contributions:325 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
pythonscxml
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