Erik Madsen
Software Development Engineer III at Warner Bros. Discovery
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolErik Madsen is a seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable microservices and APIs across media, gaming and logistics companies, currently working as a Software Development Engineer III in Stockholm. He has repeatedly stepped into senior and principal roles at organizations like Discovery/Warner Bros. Discovery, Paradox Interactive and Budbee, delivering backend platforms in Go, Ruby, Python, Scala and Java. His background includes leading main APIs, middleware for multi-tenant OTT platforms, and integration architectures—often balancing incremental refactors with ongoing feature delivery. Erik pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture decisions and a track record of mentoring and recruiting technical teams. An unconventional detail: he holds both a Computing Science degree from Glasgow and an earlier BSc in Political Science, reflecting a blend of technical depth and broader analytical perspective. Recruiter-friendly note: he is selective about approaches and opportunities, preferring roles where he can own core backend systems end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Political Science, BSc, Political Science at Aarhus UniversityMatematisk Studentereksamen, Matematik, Fysik, Kemi, Matematisk Studentereksamen, Matematik, Fysik, Kemi at Langkær GymnasiumBSc Hons, Computing Science, BSc Hons, Computing Science at The University of Glasgow
English, Danish, Swedish, bokm�l, norwegian, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (49)
verify7
async6
syntax6
refactoring6
appstore6
jetty6
sbt6
sign-in-with-apple6
ruby6
storekit6
intellij-idea6
java6
sidekiq6
scala6
asynchronous6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
beatmadsen/rswim
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Ruby implementation of the SWIM gossip protocol
Contributions:45 commits, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 5 months
swimp2pgossip-protocolrubyswim-protocol
beatmadsen/is_it_done_yet
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
Coordinating build outcomes of parallel CI build pipelines
Contributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 11 months
continuous-deploymentpipelinebuild-pipelinesparallelpipeline-framework
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