Sebastian Zander
CIO at The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolSebastian Zander is a seasoned IT leader and CIO based in the Greater Stockholm area with over a decade of experience guiding IT strategy in academia and healthcare. As CIO of The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences since 2019, he has driven IT strategy, research data storage, system administration models, and the rollout of Office 365 for staff and students, while coordinating IT services and governance. His prior tenure at Karolinska Institutet saw him evolve from IT Technician to Head of IT Operations and ultimately Head of Section, overseeing multi-unit IT environments (80 servers, 700 clients) and leading procurement, staff budgets, and architecture evaluation. He brings a people-centered leadership philosophy—fun, freedom with responsibility, and continuous feedback—grounded in GTD practices to keep teams engaged and productive. He holds a Diploma in Developmental Leadership and a background in economics, reflecting a blend of organizational development and technical oversight.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasieexamen, Economics, Gymnasieexamen, Economics at Malmö BorgarskolaBachelor's degree, MDA-program, Bachelor's degree, MDA-program at Blekinge tekniska högskolaDiploma, Developmental Leadership, Diploma, Developmental Leadership at Riddarfjärden
English, German, Swedish
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Github Skills (43)
azerothcore10
survival9
sdl29
confluent9
nuget9
c-plus-plus9
confluent-cloud9
trinitycore9
refactoring9
programming-languages8
dotnet8
zombies8
c-sharp8
kafka7
apache-kafka7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zsebastian/stir-lang
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
TarheadStudio/log4net.RabbitMQ
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reachablelogginglog4net-appenderlog4netrabbitmq
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