Patrik Svensson
Founder at Spectre Systems AB
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrik Svensson is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in DevOps, build automation and TDD-driven development. He is the creator and maintainer of widely used open-source projects Cake and Spectre.Console, and a Microsoft MVP and three-time GitHub Star recipient, reflecting a strong reputation in the developer ecosystem. Patrik blends hands-on backend and build-engineering expertise with full-stack contributions—he’s built CI/CD pipelines, parsers for financial formats (SWIFT/EBICS), and rewritten a domain-specific compiler while consulting across insurance and fintech. Comfortable in C#, Swift and Rust, he tends to simplify complex problems into elegant, testable code and often surfaces improvements in tooling and developer experience that others overlook. Based in Sweden, he runs Spectre Systems AB and continues to steer influential OSS projects used across the .NET community.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer engineering, Computer engineering at Linköping UniversityBäckängsgymnasiet
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (37)
nuget10
cakephp10
website-development10
multithreading10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
bash10
build-system10
asp-net10
console-application10
markup-language10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
website-design10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
spectreconsole/spectre.console
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 435 reviews, 303 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrik's contributions primarily focused on adding and improving the functionality of a .NET library for creating console applications. The user implemented new convenience methods to simplify writing values to the console, including extension methods for existing interfaces, as well as the initial parser and renderer for a markup language within the console applications. These changes provided new features such as adding markup tags.
net-librarydotnetconsolecsharpansi-colors
cake-build/cake
May 2014 - Jan 2021
:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
Role in this project:Backend Engineer & Automation Engineer
Backend Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:33 releases, 34 reviews, 756 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Patrik was primarily involved in improving the build process and addressing argument parsing errors within the Cake build automation system. They added features to handle NuGet packages, including installation, and implemented support for environment variable overrides and build-specific configuration. Furthermore, the user contributed to the overall development of the build system by adding support for various testing frameworks.
cake-buildbuild-automation-toolc-sharpdotnetcorenunit
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