Erik Hellman
Partner at Hellman Software
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Hellman is an experienced engineering leader and founding partner based in Stockholm with 11+ years delivering mobile, embedded, IoT and cloud solutions and a strong focus on AI strategy and agentic workflows. He blends hands-on software architecture and senior engineering leadership—having led Android initiatives at companies like H&M, ICA and Spotify—with consulting and mentoring work through his freelance practice. As co-founder of Collaborative Minds he now helps organizations turn data and AI into actionable products and decision-making infrastructure. Erik is an active open-source contributor who modernized WebRTC samples and added test automation and browser workarounds, showing an attention to cross-browser reliability and developer experience. He also has a background in teaching and research, which informs his pragmatic approach to growing team competence and delivering maintainable systems. Comfortable moving between low-level embedded projects and strategic AI initiatives, he pairs technical depth with product-minded execution.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
s610
webrtc10
test-automation10
testing10
selenium9
selenium-ide9
html9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
webrtc/samples
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
WebRTC Web demos and samples
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:279 commits, 98 PRs, 200 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to front-end development, focusing on refactoring and modernizing existing WebRTC sample code, particularly in the getUserMedia and device-related samples, converting them to ES6 standards. They implemented or adapted existing tests using a testing framework (likely NightwatchJS given the reference) to verify the functionality of the getUserMedia samples, including testing camera resolution and media playback. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality by fixing linting errors, updating code syntax for better readability, and incorporating browser-specific workarounds.
webrtc-webwebrtc-demosjavascriptwebrtc
AndroidStudyGroup/Code-Of-Conduct
Apr 2017 - Nov 2021
Code of Conduct for the Android Study Group Slack
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 7 months
androidcode-of-conductslackandroid-studystudy-group
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