Per Wiklander
Co-Founder at DataDescriber
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolPer Wiklander is a seasoned web engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building front-end focused, standards-driven applications and JVM-based backends. As Co-Founder of DataDescriber and owner of Wiklander Consulting, he blends hands-on development, systems administration, and product thinking to shepherd projects from prototype to production. He favors modern front-end toolchains (Sass/Less, Grunt, Backbone) and designs RESTful services in Scala/Java, often using Playframework. His work spans retail and finance at companies like H&M and Handelsbanken, plus long-term leadership as Lead Developer at BizImprover. An active contributor to Scala.js SPA tooling, he has improved build and dependency management for Scala.js projects—an indicator of his pragmatic focus on maintainable developer workflows. Based in Stockholm and educated at KTH, he combines deep technical craft with entrepreneurial grit.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
None, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (17)
sbt10
scala10
scalajs10
javascript9
react8
front-end-development8
back-end-development7
backend7
html6
axon6
semantic-ui6
css6
security6
java6
authentication6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Tutorial for creating a simple Single Page Application in ScalaJS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Per primarily refactored the build configuration file to improve readability and maintainability. They reorganized settings into a separate object, making it easier to manage and modify project-specific parameters. Furthermore, they integrated Webjars and `jsdeps.js` for managing JavaScript dependencies, optimizing the build process and dependency management for the Scala.js Single Page Application. The user also addressed runtime dependencies required for testing.
single-pagesingle-page-applicationscalajsscala
PerWiklander/emacs-config
Dec 2010 - Sep 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 9 months
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