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 (115)
cms10
vue-framework10
postgresql10
custom-ui10
inpainting10
backend10
hybrid10
auth10
javascript10
directus10
no-code10
api10
sql10
data-visualization10
generative-art10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Litteraturbanken/sol-frontend
Nov 2017 - Sep 2025
New frontend for http://oversattarlexikon.se
Contributions:1 PR, 102 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 11 months
reactfrontend
Litteraturbanken/littb-snapshot
Jan 2019 - Mar 2026
Contributions:23 pushes in 7 years 3 months
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