Carl Bärstad
Producer at Kids Hack Day
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Bärstad is a founder-minded producer and connector with 11 years of experience building learning-focused communities and edtech products from Stockholm. He co-founded Quirkbot (acquired by Strawbees) and Strawbees, leads Kids Hack Day globally, and advises TEDxStockholm—bridging hands-on maker education, community design, and event production. Comfortable scaling ideas from classroom workshops to international programs, he mixes technical curiosity (industrial engineering background) with practical skills in content, partnerships and facilitation. Notably, he applies community design methods learned at Mighty Networks to sustain a global organizer network, showing a rare blend of product thinking and grassroots community stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Management - Focus: Business, Innovation & Programming, MSc Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Management - Focus: Business, Innovation & Programming at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityExchange year, Industrial Engineering & Management, Exchange year, Industrial Engineering & Management at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish, Swedish, object oriented programming
Github Skills (3)
transparency6
sustainability5
open-source2
Github contributions (3)
KidsHackDay/kidshackday.org
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:109 commits, 109 pushes in 2 months
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