Peter Hedlund
Senior Manager - Software Applications Engineering
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPeter Hedlund is a Senior Manager of Software Applications Engineering with 22 years of experience combining deep neuroscience research and hands-on software development, currently leading mobile app teams for Dexcom's continuous glucose monitoring platform. Trained as an MD/PhD neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet, he translated bench science into impact—discovering roles for the 5-HT7 receptor and building animal models and pharmacological assays—before shifting to full-time software engineering. He brings senior-level iOS, Objective-C, C++, and Qt expertise paired with domain knowledge in receptor pharmacology, molecular biology, and drug discovery, enabling him to bridge clinical science and product engineering. An active contributor to open-source projects, he improved macOS support and retina/UI polish for the RSS Guard feed reader, showing attention to cross-platform user experience and build systems. Known for converting complex experimental analysis into practical software tools since his postdoc, he excels at turning rigorous data-driven methods into reliable consumer-grade applications. Based in San Diego, he blends scientific rigor, product sensibility, and team leadership to deliver medically critical mobile software.
22 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MD, Medicine, MD, Medicine at Karolinska institutet
Swedish, English
Github Skills (14)
feed10
macos10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
reader10
qt10
rss-reader10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
qt-widgets9
uid9
cpp8
rss8
cplus8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
martinrotter/rssguard
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Feed reader (podcast player and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the macOS compatibility of the RSS Guard application. Their contributions included enabling retina display support, creating application bundles, and fixing issues specific to the macOS environment. They also made UI adjustments, like hiding menu items not relevant to macOS. This involved modifications to the build configuration, UI elements, and core application code.
rssrss-readertiny-tiny-rsspodcastc-plus-plus
nextcloud/notes-ios
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 59 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.