Jente Ankarberg
Lead Engineer at Griffin
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJente Ankarberg is a Lead Engineer based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems and leading teams across banking and infrastructure domains. He helped establish Klarna’s native banking connectivity in Sweden and the SEPA region, later managing teams responsible for core banking integration. At Griffin he progressed from Software Engineer to Lead Engineer, demonstrating rapid technical leadership and delivery. An active open-source contributor, Jente has improved low-level tooling and libraries—from media player CLI memory fixes in playerctl to introducing refined types in Scala and modernizing the Piper GTK mouse configurator—showing a blend of systems-level care and API design. He favors pragmatic refactors and robustness (locale-aware parsing, memory-leak fixes, Meson integration) that quietly improve maintainability and user experience. Trained at KTH and TU Delft, he pairs formal computer science education with practical, cross-language engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Github Skills (31)
gobject10
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system-programming10
python10
refinement-types10
top-level10
testing10
mpi10
c-programming10
c1110
dbus10
scala10
typer10
c1710
gtk10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cage-kiosk/cage
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
A Wayland kiosk
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 17 reviews, 226 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jente primarily worked on refactoring and improving the Wayland kiosk's core functionality. Their commits focused on simplifying the code by removing support for multiple outputs, allowing arguments to be passed to applications, and handling keyboard removal. Additionally, they refactored the desktop_view_at function and optimized window maximization. The contributions streamlined the kiosk's operation and improved its maintainability.
compositorwaylandkiosk
libratbag/piper
May 2017 - Mar 2019
GTK application to configure gaming devices
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:247 commits, 162 PRs, 103 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jente refactored the codebase to utilize the Meson build system, improving integration with the GNOME stack through Meson's GNOME module. They implemented bindings for the ratbagd daemon, introducing key classes for devices, profiles, and resolutions. They added a Gtk.Application subclass to manage application initialization and window creation. Further contributions included developing the UI for configuring resolutions, with a focus on enhancing user experience by aligning values to mouse resolutions and adding back buttons.
linuxgnomegaminggtkconfigure
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