Summary
Fredrik Furufors is a Research and Development Engineer with 12 years of experience building pragmatic software and systems at the intersection of engineering and IT, currently improving medical device toolchains and production integration. He has led electric drivetrain software teams at Polestar, delivered traction inverter firmware and calibration, and acted as a bridge between hardware and software to simplify complex systems and remove redundant safety margins. Comfortable across languages and domains, his background spans embedded C, Python, Ruby/Rails, D3.js visualizations and TensorFlow-based ML for in-vivo tracking, where his master’s work produced record-breaking accuracy. He thrives on complexity, coaching teams to keep the long perspective while staying hands-on with refactoring and tooling work. Based in Gothenburg, Fredrik combines systems-level thinking with functional and parallel programming interests, and his GitHub persona — “The Jackie Chan of Code” — hints at a playful, self-reliant approach to solving hard technical problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electric Drivetrain, Electric Drivetrain at YH Akademin
Yrkeshögskoleexamen Tillämpad Elektronik för Inbyggda system (TEIS) Computer Science, Yrkeshögskoleexamen Tillämpad Elektronik för Inbyggda system (TEIS) Computer Science at AGSTU Yrkeshögskola
Master's degree Computer Science - Algorithms languages and logic, Master's degree Computer Science - Algorithms languages and logic at Chalmers University of Technology
Associate's degree Computer aided measurement systems, Associate's degree Computer aided measurement systems at University of Gothenburg