Pär Björklund
Senior Software Developer at isMobile
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPär Björklund is a Senior Software Developer with 15 years of experience, currently driving engineering at isMobile and previously improving CI/CD, performance, and developer productivity across multiple firms. He combines deep curiosity and a collaborative mindset to dig into unfamiliar systems, debug complex issues, and share practical solutions that make teams more effective. Comfortable with statically typed languages but pragmatic about tool choice, he has hands-on experience from C++ performance tuning and serial hardware integration to TypeScript-enabled developer tooling and Red Hat Fuse integrations. An active contributor to large open-source projects like Kodi, he has refactored core subsystems such as window and input management, demonstrating a talent for improving architecture and maintainability. Colleagues rely on him as a go-to problem solver and informal tech lead who accelerates delivery through targeted automation and smarter workflows.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mitthögskolanvästermalm
English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
446reputation
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6answers
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Github Skills (13)
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
refactor10
architecture9
architectures9
front-end-development7
vector6
asp-net-mvc6
cmake6
entity-framework6
manifest6
asp-net-identity6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Jan 2013 - Oct 2021
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 430 commits, 453 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Pär primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing the Kodi codebase, specifically concerning window management and input handling. Their work involved moving functionalities from existing classes to new ones, such as transferring window creation and destruction to `CGUIWindowManager` and centralizing input handling within `CInputManager`. Furthermore, the user made style and indentation fixes and addressed a number of bugs by modifying the code of several cpp files in the repository.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
Paxxi/roslyn
May 2017 - Jul 2019
The .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") provides open-source C# and Visual Basic compilers with rich code analysis APIs.
Contributions:19 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 2 months
roslyncompilersdotnetroslyn-analyzercompiler
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