Kenneth Lundin
Senior SW Designer, Head Of Erlang OTP Development Center at Ericsson AB
Södertälje, Sweden
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Top SchoolKenneth Lundin is a seasoned software leader with 16+ years focused on telecommunications and concurrent systems, currently heading the Erlang/OTP Development Center at Ericsson in Södertälje. He has steered development and maintenance of the open-source Erlang/OTP runtime since 1999, combining systems-level design with long-term stewardship of a widely used fault-tolerant platform. His career began in embedded and telecom toolchains, progressing through system management and process leadership roles that shaped large-scale development practices at Ericsson. Kenneth contributes directly to the Erlang/OTP codebase and documentation—recently improving JSON handling and type checks—demonstrating hands-on expertise in both runtime internals and developer-facing docs. He holds a computer science background from KTH and brings a pragmatic, test-driven mindset forged in decades of telecom system testing and automation. Notably, his tenure spans the entire open-sourcing era of Erlang/OTP, giving him rare institutional knowledge of its evolution and ecosystem.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Rinmansskolan Tekniskt Gymnasium, EskilstunaTeknisk Datavetenskap (Computer Science), Teknisk Datavetenskap (Computer Science) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Github Skills (4)
erlang10
asn19
json9
documentation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
erlang/otp
Jan 2010 - Nov 2022
Erlang/OTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 110 reviews, 75 commits in 13 years
Contributions summary:Kenneth contributed to the documentation of the Erlang/OTP project by adding references to a new book. They also made modifications to the code base to improve the handling of JSON objects, by changing the internal representation of a sequence to a property list. Further contributions included the addition of checks for INTEGER values, and handling parameterized types with extension markers.
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KennethL/otp
Nov 2009 - Mar 2022
a fork from the official erlang/otp repository
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 12 years 5 months
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