Björn Ekryd
Computer Software Consultant at Ekryd Konsult AB
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolBjörn Ekryd is a seasoned Java-focused solution architect and certified Scrum Master with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and coaching teams on enterprise systems, microservices, and automated CI/CD pipelines. As founder and CEO of Ekryd Konsult AB (and a former backend engineer at Spotify), he blends leadership, system architecture and mentorship to deliver maintainable, test-driven solutions. He evangelizes Clean Code, TDD, automated build servers and pragmatic API design, and has taught workshops on Spring, Hibernate, Maven and JUnit. Comfortable shifting between coding and coaching, he frequently serves as architect, Scrum Master and instructor on consulting engagements. With a master’s in computer science from Stockholm University and early experience at Ericsson and academia, he brings both industrial rigor and teaching experience to complex delivery challenges. An underappreciated strength is his longevity running a consultant business—demonstrating client trust, adaptability and repeated success across startups and large enterprises.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stockholm University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (12)
maven10
xml10
javas10
maven-plugin10
refactoring10
java10
plugin-architecture9
logging9
unit-testing9
exception-handling8
pomxml6
validation6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Ekryd/EffectiveJava
Mar 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
Ekryd/reflection-utils
Oct 2013 - Oct 2020
A utility library to handle Java reflection with ease
Contributions:1 review, 100 commits, 28 PRs in 7 years 1 month
java-reflectionreflectionjavahandleutility-library
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