Erik Larsson
Front Pages Tech Lead at Schibsted
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Larsson is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience steering engineering and data architecture at Schibsted’s major news brands, now serving as Front Pages Tech Lead in Stockholm. He has progressed from hands-on development to managing cross-functional teams and product-critical platforms at Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet, with a background in integration and systems work dating back to the early 2000s. Erik combines technical depth in web and data architectures with practical delivery skills, repeatedly translating newsroom needs into scalable, reliable front-page systems. Despite a self-deprecating GitHub bio, his steady promotion path and long tenure in media tech reflect a pragmatic focus on impact over vanity metrics.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stockholm University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (56)
backstage10
infrastructure10
dx10
service-catalog10
microservices10
socket-io-client8
graph8
nodejs7
terraform7
socket7
aws7
sdk6
browser6
javascript6
devops5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
evergraphme/evergraph
Mar 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 76 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 9 months
erikxiv/backstage
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:124 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 2 months
portalsbackstageopen-platform
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