Niclas Axelsson
Sweden
Summary
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SeniorNiclas Axelsson is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building distributed backends and scalable APIs, currently focused on an Elixir-based API-gateway solution at Telia. A lifelong entrepreneur who started his first company at 11, he blends deep functional-programming expertise (Erlang/Elixir) with practical experience in Postgres, Kubernetes and cloud deployments. He runs his own consultancy, Burbas Consulting, and has a track record delivering telecom and media backends, mobile and web systems across startups and enterprises. Notable open-source work includes enhancing the BossDB Erlang ORM adapter for DynamoDB—adding table initialization, capacity configuration and metadata handling—showing his attention to database correctness and operational detail. Based in Värmland, Sweden, he’s a collaborative problem-solver who enjoys crafting clever, pragmatic solutions to tricky engineering challenges.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
amazon-dynamodb10
orm10
dynamodb10
erlang10
database-design9
configuration-management8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ErlyORM/boss_db
Jun 2013 - May 2014
BossDB: a sharded, caching, pooling, evented ORM for Erlang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 commits, 11 comments, 3 issues in 11 months
Contributions summary:Niclas focused on enhancing the `BossDB` adapter for DynamoDB. Their work included setting up the endpoint configuration, adding the necessary code to initialize tables based on models, and adding support for capacity configurations at the global and model level. Further improvements involved handling boolean types and refining metadata record management within the database.
cachingerlangorm
burbas/burbweb
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
View/Controller - Web framework for Erlang
Contributions:74 commits, 14 PRs, 47 pushes in 7 months
erlangweb-framework
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