Folke Westergren
Senior Developer Success Engineer at Clerk.com
Old Toronto, Ontario, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolFolke Westergren is a Senior Developer Success Engineer with seven years of software engineering experience and a decade-long background in teaching and entrepreneurship. He blends product-focused front-end engineering at companies like Slack and Axis with hands-on developer support, having built interactive onboarding experiences used by tens of millions and supported developer ecosystems. Folke scaled and fully automated a 15-unit short-term rental business—designing the web app that launched his engineering career—showing a rare combination of operational automation, people management, and product thinking. Comfortable translating complex problems into practical solutions, he thrives at the intersection of developer experience, tooling, and customer-facing engineering. Now based in Toronto and continually expanding his software craft through formal study and diverse roles, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach informed by international teaching and hospitality experience.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education - MEd Swedish and English, Master of Education - MEd Swedish and English at Linnaeus UniversitySoftware Engineering Career Track, Software Engineering Career Track at Springboard
Swedish, English
Github Skills (6)
javascript9
open-source9
springboard5
spring1
slack1
spring-boot1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
f-westergren/covidate
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Website to check the spread of COVID-19 after a certain event/date
Contributions:6 PRs, 66 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
cssjavascriptreactspread
f-westergren/fantasy-app
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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