Simon Fransson
Developer at Funnel.io
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolSimon Fransson is a Stockholm-based developer with 15 years of experience building web platforms, Mac and iOS apps, and backend services, currently contributing at Funnel.io. A former freelancer, he blends independent self-discipline with collaboration skills honed across agencies and product teams, delivering on time and within budget. He focuses on open source web platforms and has made substantive backend contributions to widely used WordPress tooling, adding timezone-aware date/time fields and UI improvements. Detail-oriented and curious, he actively explores new community tools to streamline workflows and architecture. Comfortable across the full stack, Simon pairs pragmatic engineering with clear, straightforward communication. Beyond code, his background in musicology and early work automating creative production give him a practical, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information systems, musicology, Bachelor's Degree, Information systems, musicology at Lund University
Swedish, English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
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apidoc10
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css9
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internet-explorer9
javascript8
database-migration6
thumbnails6
documentation6
documentation-generator6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/Custom-Metaboxes-and-Fields-for-WordPress
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Lets you easily create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Simon contributed significantly to the WordPress plugin, primarily focusing on back-end functionalities. Their work included adding essential functions for time zone-related fields, such as retrieving the site's default time zone and calculating time zone offsets. They also fixed merge conflicts within the core plugin files, indicating an understanding of the project's codebase and version control practices. Furthermore, the user introduced a new date/time picker with a time zone combo field and added a select timezone dropdown field, enhancing the plugin's user interface and functionality.
custom-fieldsfieldsmetaboxesmind
dessibelle/any-hostname
May 2011 - Nov 2016
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 5 years 7 months
urlshostnameidealwordpressphp
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