Johan Thelin
Founder at WirelessCar
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Thelin is a seasoned product and systems leader with 19 years of experience bridging embedded, automotive, mobile and backend domains, currently heading the Open SDV Platform at WirelessCar. He combines deep technical roots in embedded systems and system architecture with practical product strategy and team-building experience across startups and large corporations. A prolific open-source advocate, Johan founded the annual foss-north conference, co-organizes local C++ meetups, and contributes to docs and front-end polish on projects like the QML book. He has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering, authorship, and leadership roles—often turning complex, system-level challenges into pragmatic, collaborative roadmaps. Based in Gothenburg, he complements his MSC in Electronics with a knack for making developer-facing ecosystems more usable and community-driven.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics, Electronics at AlströmergymnasietMSC, Electronics, MSC, Electronics at Chalmers University of Technology
English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (4)
css10
qml10
documentation9
sphinx8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
qmlbook/qmlbook
Oct 2014 - Nov 2020
The source code for the upcoming qml book
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:137 commits, 51 PRs, 65 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Johan primarily focused on importing initial texts and basic styling within the repository. They made changes to the stylesheet and pygments.css to adjust the look and feel of the documentation and included the addition of an issues system. Their commits also included adding assets and examples for various chapters of the book, suggesting a focus on content creation and presentation.
qml
e8johan/hassframe-ui
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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