• Launched a brand new product, Groups, a social network allowing you to share your experiences with other members.
• Rewrote the billing system, including integration with Stripe, for the US market.
• Made major improvements in regards to error handling in the API layer.

Backend Engineer

• Wrote and maintained extensive technical documentation.
• Laid a technical foundation for the product in which other developers could expand upon.
• Built an automated testing pipeline, including coverage, using Jest, Cypress and Istanbul and integrated it with our existing CI pipeline.

Software Architect

• Containerized the back-end using Docker and Docker Compose and deployed on AWS infrastructure using ECS Fargate, ElastiCache, RDS and additional services. All automated using Cloudformation.
• Implemented cookie and token based authentication.
• Set up a background processing pipeline.

A hybrid role consisting of both development and project management. Led a small group of four people distributed over multiple projects. Work was done in an Agile manner using the Scrum process and was either on-site or fully remote.

ApoEx
• Integrated with the industrial robot, Rowa, an automating storage and dispensing system by writing a low level client communicating over a network socket.
• Improved the internal packaging system by making packaging of needles and syringes more effective.
• Two-way integration with NetSuite.

Evoke Gaming
• Acted as a system architect during the development of a back-end system written in Go, powering multiple gambling sites and thousands of daily active users.
• Implemented features of varying scale on the front-end using JavaScript, React and Redux.

Fortnox/Stripe integration
• Integrated with both Fortnox and Stripe to automatically mark invoices as paid whenever the customer received a payment.
• Implemented a rule-based engine allowing you to automatically associate payments with specific invoices.

Software Engineer

• Built a prototype for notifying customers in real-time about important invoicing events using RxJava, Kafka and WebSockets.
• Made client-side performance improvements using profiling and benchmarks.
• Assisted in transitioning the front-end from Backbone.js to React.

• Visualized queue limits for each connected channel.
• Added real-time URL-shortening capabilities to their text editor.
• Extended their Facebook integration with support for connecting a Facebook Page in addition to a Facebook Group.

• Built payment solution by integrating with Neteller and adding support for currency conversion, allowing customers to seamlessly deposit/withdraw funds as needed.
• Extended the back office solution with features such as support tickets, customer timeouts and logging capabilities.
• Extended the back-end API with client-facing endpoints supporting the SPA in the front-end.

Länstrafiken Kronoberg
• Consumed RFID transactions from bus cards and built the necessary user interfaces for visualizing bus fare activities and transaction history.
• Integrated with Babs, a payment provider, allowing customers to both purchase bus cards and refilling them in-app.

Kryast
• Built a social network focusing on healthy and sustainable workplaces. Full-stack role including both back-end and front-end work.
• Set up the necessary infrastructure to launch the MVP in a cost-effective manner.

• Maintained and expanded the feature set of Standout’s internal CMS, serving hundreds of customers at the time.
• Built real-time geographical tracking and visualization of trucks en-route for an up-and-coming startup, Moveq, in the Swedish trucking industry.

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