Summary
Erik Dackander is a tech lead with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, data-driven systems across startups and enterprise teams. He’s built cloud-native backends and migration strategies that enabled >10x growth and supported millions of active users, and has hands-on ML and personalization experience from Amazon Ads’ CreativeX. Comfortable across C#, Java, Python and Go, Erik combines infrastructure design with pragmatic product work— from unified backend protocols to a video compression initiative that cut bandwidth and storage costs by ~30%. He’s motivated by algorithmic challenges and building tools that empower teams, and explicitly avoids roles in tobacco, alcohol, and gambling sectors. Based in Stockholm, he also has a strong teaching background from KTH, having supported over a thousand students in core CS courses.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish, English, italienska, Spanish