Emil Sjölander
Director, Product Engineering at Legora
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEmil Sjölander is a product-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building developer tools, mobile UI libraries, and startups, currently directing Product Engineering for legal software after leading Dev Mode at Figma. He co-founded Visly (acquired by Figma) and has deep hands-on roots in Android UI—authoring well-used open-source libraries for sticky headers, flip views, and database boilerplate reduction. At Facebook he contributed to core mobile infrastructure like React Native, Yoga, Litho, and Flipper, blending systems thinking with polished UX. Emil pairs product strategy and design sensibility with engineering rigor, shipping developer-facing features (MCP, Code Connect) that reduce friction for designers and engineers. Based in London with a master’s in Computer Science and Interaction Design and time at Y Combinator, he brings both founder grit and enterprise-scale delivery experience. An understated strength is his long-term focus on backward compatibility and pragmatic API design, evidenced by maintenance of Android libraries that balance new features with older-platform support.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMaster’s Degree, Computer Science and Interaction Design, Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Interaction Design at Umeå University
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (29)
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scrollview10
android-sdk10
android-development10
java10
android-library10
javas10
android-native-library10
sql10
android10
android-gui9
annotations9
page-layout9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
emilsjolander/android-FlipView
Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
A small, easy to use android library for implementing flipping between views as seen in the popular Flipboard application
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:43 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Emil focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Android FlipView library. Their commits addressed bugs, improved error handling, and refined the core flipping behavior. They also added features such as over-flipping modes and stable page handling, contributing to a more robust and user-friendly component. Moreover, the user added a mechanism to include an empty view when the dataset is null.
android-libraryandroidflipboardkotlinflipping
emilsjolander/StickyScrollViewItems
May 2012 - Feb 2014
A small android library for tagging views inside a ScrollView as "sticky" making them stick to the top of the scroll container until a new sticky view comes and takes it's place
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:19 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Emil primarily contributed to the development of an Android library for creating sticky views within ScrollViews. Their work included the initial implementation, bug fixes for touch events, and optimizations for older Android versions. They also addressed issues related to view hierarchy, ensuring sticky views function correctly in various scenarios. Further improvements involved adding transparency support for sticky views.
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