Sebastian Öberg is a seasoned product owner and software professional with 15 years of experience building web apps, sites and databases from hands-on development to CEO-level product leadership. Based in Valencia, he runs consulting work while leading product at Vägfas AB, blending strategic direction with practical engineering. His background includes systems development at the Swedish National Archives and founder experience running a tech company, giving him a strong mix of public-sector rigor and entrepreneurial agility. An active front-end contributor to the well-known OpenSeadragon project, he focuses on improving UI interactions and pragmatic code clarity. He enjoys tackling new technology and UX challenges, and often pairs product vision with direct fixes in code to move ideas into shipped features.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Högskoleingenjör Datateknik, Högskoleingenjör Datateknik at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
An open-source, web-based viewer for zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the OpenSeadragon viewer's frontend functionality. They fixed a zooming bug, addressed drag-and-drop behavior within iframes, and cached an iframe-related variable. Their work involved modifications to the `viewer.js` and `mousetracker.js` files, demonstrating a focus on improving the user interface and interaction handling. Additionally, they updated the codebase by converting JSDoc comments to plain comments, indicating a potential effort towards code clarity.
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