Einar Pehrson is a Staff Backend Engineer specializing in authentication and authorization with an M.Sc. in Software Engineering and over 18 years of professional experience, including four years in leadership and engineering management. He is a pragmatic generalist who designs and builds scalable, reliable platforms and services across web, mobile and desktop clients, with deep expertise in Java and JVM languages, concurrency, bytecode manipulation and modular architectures. At Atlassian he was a core contributor to Forge, helping migrate legacy event systems to modern stacks, improve CI reliability, and introduce hexagonal architecture to reduce complexity at 20M+ MAU scale. Now at Pleo he continues to drive security-critical platform work, combining hands-on engineering with platform-level thinking. Comfortable across product, platform and developer-experience concerns, he pairs a strong academic background with a history of shipping observability, scheduling and operational tooling that tames complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DEF 2nd degré DELF 2nd degré French, DEF 2nd degré DELF 2nd degré French at Université de Perpignan - UPVD Alumni
English, English at Uppsala University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
M.Sc. Software Engineering, M.Sc. Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
Business Economics International Studies, Business Economics International Studies at University of Gothenburg
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Einar Pehrson - Staff Backend Engineer, Authentication & Authorization