Björn Palmqvist
System Developer at ICT Services and System Development (ITS)
Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolBjörn Palmqvist is a pragmatic software craftsman and systems developer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and refactoring complex systems across games, gambling platforms, and government enterprise software. He combines deep proficiency in C++, C#, Java and Python with pragmatic agile practices—advocating TDD and pair programming to tame legacy codebases and improve long-term maintainability. As a founder and former CTO/lead architect, he has designed transaction-critical, client-server architectures and real-time simulation engines, balancing technical leadership with delivery. Comfortable across the stack—from PlayStation native development and PhysX integrations to MySQL-backed online gaming platforms and high-performance batch systems—he thrives on solving performance and traceability challenges. Based in Umeå, Sweden, Björn also teaches refactoring techniques and brings a rare mix of game-dev creativity and enterprise-grade engineering discipline to every project.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science at Umeå University
Swedish, English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
doxygen10
git-repository10
swig10
compile10
java9
reactive9
fitnesse8
kubernetes8
simulator8
cloud-native8
quarkus7
maven7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bjornpalmqvist/simone
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
aidium/pvt
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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