Pär-håkan Swahn
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPär-håkan Swahn is a seasoned commercial and business development leader with 15 years of experience and a 35+ year career spanning revenue management, product packaging and ancillaries across Scandinavia and wider Europe. He has repeatedly built businesses through change management, leading commercial strategy for travel brands including Thomas Cook, Ving Sverige and FTI Touristik. Comfortable operating across the full business lifecycle, he blends hands-on operational experience with strategic direction—from revenue management roots to heading business development and commercial functions. Based in Stockholm, he pairs deep industry knowledge with a board-level certification from Styrelseakademin, signalling governance as well as executional strength. Less obvious: he has also contributed to open-source software testing infrastructure on a prominent .NET actor-model project (Akka.NET), reflecting a pragmatic, technical curiosity beyond his commercial remit. Reliable in complex, cross-border contexts, he’s known for translating market change into sustainable commercial growth.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certifikat för styrelsearbete, Certifikat för styrelsearbete at StyrelseakademinKorsängskolan Enköping
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
asp-net10
net10
dotnet10
akka10
csharp10
actor-model10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
testing10
concurrency9
fsm9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:280 commits, 14 PRs, 4 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pär-håkan primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and improving the robustness of the Akka.NET library. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to message handling and timeouts in the test kit, as well as adding new features such as the ExpectMsgAllOf, and ReceiveN functions. They also refactored and improved existing classes related to FSMs. This involved modifications to existing test classes and a focus on improving the reliability of the testing tools within the repository.
dotnetconcurrencydistributed-actorsdistributed-programmingc-sharp
akkadotnet/Media
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
akka-netlogosakkaillustrations
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