Richard Olsson
Teacher, Fullstack Web Development at Lernia Yrkeshögskola
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.
17 years of coding experience
John Bauergymnasiet
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
flash-player10
tinder10
caller10
away3d10
frontend10
api9
logic9
actionscript9
whitespace9
foundation9
rest8
npm-package8
api-platform8
docker8
drag-and-drop8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zetkin/zetkin.org
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Zetkin Foundation website
Contributions:6 reviews, 333 commits, 59 PRs in 7 years 11 months
foundation
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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