Erik Engervall
Co-Founder & CTO at Venga
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolErik Engervall is a pragmatic CTO and co-founder with 10 years of hands-on experience building full‑stack web products and developer-friendly tooling from Stockholm. He blends a strong product mindset with engineering leadership—running teams, architecting monorepos and serverless stacks, and shipping a full-scale Medusa.js e‑commerce platform at Minacolor. Erik moves comfortably across frontend, backend and infra (React/Next, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis) and has driven reliability improvements like test infrastructures and TypeScript adoption in open-source projects such as bull-board. He founded developer-focused products and platforms (Hack Days, Noaa AB) and now leads Venga to make it easier for people to meet in person, showing a persistent interest in social, consumer-facing apps. Known for mentoring and improving team rituals, incident management and documentation, he pairs startup grit with consultancy polish from Spotify, Klarna and Netlight engagements. An engineer who ships features and developer ergonomics alike, Erik often surfaces small operational wins that compound into big product improvements.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High school Science programme, High school Science programme at Norra RealMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Uppsala University
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
bull10
jes10
typescript10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
jtest10
typescripts10
redis9
front-end-development9
react9
backend8
back-end-development8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
felixmosh/bull-board
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
🎯 Queue background jobs inspector
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 25 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Erik implemented new features and refactored existing ones for the "bull-board" project, a background jobs inspector. They introduced testing infrastructure (Jest and Dockest) and implemented TypeScript support to improve code quality. The user also worked on UI components, enhancing the display of Redis stats and adding new functionalities.
redisbackground-jobsinspectorbulllaravel
erikengervall/gigalib
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 135 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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