Viktor Varland
Senior Developer at Amedia
Hässleholm, Skåne County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolViktor Varland is a senior developer and technical leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and modernizing web platforms, and two decades of broader industry involvement. He currently leads the team powering tools for 1,500 content producers at Amedia while running his own web consultancy, vardevs, providing end-to-end hosting, integration and product delivery. Previously as Head Engineer at DHIS2 he shaped frontend architecture, led multiple teams, and migrated complex build and deployment workflows—contributions visible in the prominent open-source DHIS2 core repository. Viktor blends full-stack engineering with product and release responsibilities, consistently driving CI/CD, build modernization (Maven → Node/npm), and Docker optimizations. Based in Hässleholm, Sweden, he pairs pragmatic consulting experience with large-scale open-source impact, and describes himself on GitHub as "the anvil that breaks the hammer"—a hint at his steady, problem-solving approach.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Blekinge tekniska högskola / Blekinge Institute of Technology
Norwegian, Swedish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
continuous-deployment10
javascript10
npm10
front-end-development10
nodejs10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
maven7
border6
firefox6
communications6
windows6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dhis2/dhis2-core
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
DHIS 2 Core. Written in Java. Contains the service layer and Web API.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 79 commits, 554 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Viktor primarily focused on modernizing the DHIS2 web application build process. Their work involved transitioning from Maven to Node.js and npm for frontend web app management, enabling continuous deployment. Key contributions include writing Node.js scripts to copy applications and modify configuration files, and they also addressed issues to improve the app's structure. Further contributions involved refactoring the docker build process for more efficient image builds and the addition of new features.
apidhishibernatemavenspring-mvc
varl/scripts
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
A collection of scripts which doesn't really belong anywhere
Contributions:3 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
scriptazerothcorewindowsanywherereally
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