Richard Olsson
Teacher, Fullstack Web Development at Zetkin Foundation
Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden
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Top SchoolRichard Olsson is a seasoned full-stack web developer and educator based in Malmö with 16 years of experience building interactive web experiences and teaching modern web stacks. He combines freelance work for global brands (Google, Toyota, McDonalds, BBC, MTV and others) with product leadership at the open-source friendly Zetkin Foundation and tutoring fullstack cohorts in JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Node.js. His background as a core contributor to the Away3D open-source engine and author of a book on 3D in Flash reflects deep expertise in real-time graphics and client-side engineering. Comfortable across front-end (React, WebGL) and back-end (Python/Django, Node.js), he excels at turning design-driven concepts into polished, production-ready micro-sites and tools. He brings a rare blend of hands-on coding, team coordination, and curriculum design—helping organizations and learners adopt modern web practices while maintaining a pragmatic freelance mindset.
16 years of coding experience
John Bauergymnasiet
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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95answers
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whitespace
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Github Skills (129)
flash-player10
tinder10
organizer10
caller10
flash10
nintendo-3ds10
player10
api9
actionscript9
whitespace9
foundation9
logic8
rest8
golang8
python8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
richardolsson/lernia-sjj-assignments
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:474 commits, 13 PRs, 232 pushes in 1 year 2 months
zetkin/zetkin-common
Nov 2016 - Dec 2024
Common modules and logic for the Zetkin applications.
Contributions:12 reviews, 35 PRs, 70 pushes in 8 years 1 month
logic
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