Fredrik Sommar
Backend Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolFredrik Sommar is a backend engineer based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience building reliable server-side systems, currently contributing at Spotify since 2019. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from KTH and has a background as a consultant and developer across firms like Netlight, Scila, and Alstra, giving him both product-focused and client-facing perspectives. Known for an inquisitive mindset and continuous learning, he seeks pragmatic improvements to systems and workflows rather than chasing novelty. His time as a teaching assistant at KTH suggests a knack for explaining complex concepts and mentoring peers. At Spotify he applies that mix of deep technical grounding and collaborative consulting experience to scale services for high-throughput environments. Colleagues would describe him as motivated, curious, and consistently focused on measurable engineering improvements.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English, Swedish, Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mwielondek/vicam
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:209 commits in 2 months
fsommar/lacasa
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 11 months
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