Carl Ekman
Tech Lead & IOS Engineer at ZettlebyPaypal
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Ekman is a Stockholm-based Tech Lead and iOS engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building mobile products and leading teams at Zettle (PayPal). He combines a Master’s in Computer Science from Uppsala University with a background as a consultant, freelancer, and startup co-founder, bringing both product design sensibility and engineering rigor to digital product development. Known for creative problem solving, Carl moved from solo consultancy into tech leadership at iZettle, where he’s been shaping iOS architecture and mentoring engineers since 2019. His work blends UI/UX craftsmanship with pragmatic app engineering—a skillset honed through multiple client projects and founding roles. An understated detail: his career began in student-focused tech and design initiatives, giving him a long track record of translating early-stage ideas into polished, user-focused apps.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Studentexamen, Naturvetarprogrammet med English+, Studentexamen, Naturvetarprogrammet med English+ at RosendalsgymnasietCivilingenjör, Informationsteknologi, Civilingenjör, Informationsteknologi at Uppsala universitet
Swedish, English, French
Github Skills (12)
layout9
lifecycle9
swift9
asynchronous9
ios8
dynamic-forms8
functional8
async8
reactive8
forms7
uikit6
swiftui6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CarlEkman/CarlEkman.github.io
Apr 2017 - Sep 2024
Personal website, built with Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages. 👨💻
Contributions:2 PRs, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 6 months
jekyll-sitehostedjekyll
CarlEkman/cardview-ios
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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