Emil Tullstedt
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Tullstedt is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems, currently based in Stockholm and working at Handelsbanken. He has strong Go and Java expertise from roles at Grafana Labs and Tink, where he focused on APIs, authentication, and core backend improvements. At Grafana he contributed to a widely used open-source observability platform, improving navigation, logging, and error handling—showing a knack for pragmatic refactors in production systems. Emil’s background spans startups and scale-ups, from Python API work at 46elks to customer-facing engineering in Amsterdam, reflecting adaptability and ownership. He combines practical engineering discipline with an eye for developer experience and resilient backend architecture.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at KTHABB Industrigymnasium
English, Swedish
Github Skills (4)
go10
back-end-development10
logging9
error-handling9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:932 reviews, 290 commits, 451 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Emil focused on enhancing the Grafana application by modifying core back-end functionality. They made navigation enhancements by adding configurable ordering options within the navigation bar and added goavro dependency for extensions. They also made code differences in the logging and error handling which suggest experience in improving application's core logic. These changes focused on the backend logic in the application, as well as refactoring of components.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
46elks/elkme
May 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 50 commits, 70 pushes in 2 years
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