Sebastian Lövdahl
Senior Software Architect at hiboxsystems
Finland
Summary
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RockstarSebastian Lövdahl is a Senior Software Architect based in Finland with 14 years of experience building backend systems and improving developer-facing integrations. He currently architects systems at HiBox Systems while actively contributing to notable open-source projects such as Home Assistant, where he improved the Vallox integration and exposed dew point data for Met.no. Sebastian brings a pragmatic focus on code quality, refactoring, and dependency management—evident from his bug fixes and consistency improvements in an event-driven WebSocket framework. Comfortable working across complex back-end domains, he pairs steady engineering craft with a knack for making integrations more reliable and user-friendly.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
asynchronous10
python10
async10
websocket10
java10
asyncio10
javas10
event-driven10
eventing10
home-assistant10
home-automation9
refactoring8
iot8
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Atmosphere/atmosphere
Apr 2013 - Nov 2022
Event Driven WebSockets Framework with Cross-Browser Fallbacks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 107 commits, 6 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to improving the codebase's consistency and fixing bugs related to the `ApplicationConfig` interface and `BroadcasterCache`. They made javadoc improvements and corrected typos across various files. Their changes also involved refactoring and code cleanup, ensuring more consistent formatting and addressing a null pointer exception.
spring-bootcross-browserasynchronouswebsocketsbrowser
home-assistant/core
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:127 reviews, 14 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the Home Assistant core, focusing on improvements to the Vallox integration. Their work involved removing deprecated configuration options, fixing fan entity naming, and exposing dew point data in the Met.no weather component. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies, such as bumping the vallox_websocket_api and added a reconfigure step for the Vallox integration, improving its usability.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
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