Sven Axelsson
Retired at Self-employed
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolSven Axelsson is a seasoned developer and database specialist with 18 years of professional experience and an M.A. in computational linguistics, based in Gothenburg. He has held senior and lead development roles across education, publishing, and accessibility-focused products, contributing to long-term architecture and hands-on coding in C++, PHP and numerous other languages. Equally at home in low-level systems and high-level language design, he is fluent in about 20 programming languages and applies a linguist’s rigour to software and data models. His recent work includes accessibility solutions for the visually impaired and architectural stewardship of large platforms, reflecting a pragmatic blend of empathy and technical depth. Now retired and self-employed, he continues to engage with software problems informed by decades of cross-domain experience and a lasting interest in artificial languages.
18 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
MA Computational linguistics, MA Computational linguistics at University of Gothenburg
Github Skills (103)
ruby10
lua10
automation10
hammerspoon10
sublime-text10
editor10
database-migration10
database-migrations10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
git-blame10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
objective-c10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
svenax/domusic
May 2018 - Dec 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
svenax/homebrew-cask
Dec 2016 - Aug 2021
A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 9 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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