Per Andersson
Special Tech Operator
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPer Andersson is a network-focused software engineer and technical leader with 26 years of experience, currently driving innovation at Ionio and serving in multiple IETF roles including Co-Chair of the NETCONF Working Group and YANG Doctors Secretary. He blends deep protocol and systems expertise—particularly in YANG, NETCONF/RESTCONF, and Erlang-based backends—with strong security and packaging chops from long-term Debian stewardship. A pragmatic contributor and organizer, he has led core NSO/ConfD development at Cisco, implemented authentication and northbound interfaces, and improved SSL handling in well-known open-source projects like the Yaws webserver. Per is a committed community participant who prefers free/open-source tooling, mentors emerging contributors, and brings a rare combination of standards-level influence and hands-on engineering to operational networking challenges.
26 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science: Algorithms Languages and Logic, Master's degree Computer Science: Algorithms Languages and Logic at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (6)
webserver10
ssl10
erlang10
webconfig10
http-header9
documentation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
erlyaws/yaws
Oct 2010 - Nov 2022
Yaws webserver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 16 commits, 24 PRs in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Per primarily contributed to enhancing the Yaws webserver's SSL functionality. Their work involved fixing and updating SSL verification options, including modifications to the documentation to align with Erlang's SSL implementation. They also added handling for new SSL options, like `fail_if_no_peer_cert`, and incorporated these changes into the configuration loading process. Further commits focused on merging updates and handling requests with multiple Accept headers.
golanggleamerlangbeamwebserver
avtobiff/otp
Nov 2016 - Feb 2025
Erlang/OTP
Contributions:76 pushes, 11 branches in 8 years 4 months
gleamerlangbeamerlang-otpfactor
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