Joel Carlbark
Staff Engineer at Remote
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolJoel Carlbark is a Staff Engineer based in Gothenburg with 14 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing APIs, frequently using functional languages like Elixir alongside JVM and .NET ecosystems. He excels at turning prototypes into production MVPs, driving product-focused delivery with close user feedback, continuous delivery practices, and pragmatic infrastructure work. Joel has led efforts from architecture and testing to scrum facilitation, shipping field-focused PWAs and public APIs while emphasizing observability and testing in production. An open-source tinkerer and maintainer, he combines curiosity about functional programming with a track record of solving business problems across search, ingestion, and API platforms. Notably, he blends startup-style rapid iteration within larger organizations, treating engineering as product discovery as much as implementation.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Brent International School ManilaGöteborgs Tekniska InstitutComputer science, Computer science at University of Gothenburg
Github Skills (146)
programming-language10
testing10
abstraction10
ets10
alpine-linux10
rabbitmq10
lru10
cache-storage10
binary-search-tree10
liveview10
compiler10
ecto10
scalable10
build-script10
elixir10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
vorce/dasie
Feb 2018 - Sep 2022
(persistent) DAta Structures In Elixir.
Contributions:6 reviews, 27 commits, 50 PRs in 4 years 7 months
data-structuredata-structureselixirbinary-search-treepersistent-data-structure
vorce/hoeg
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Hoeg is a toy concatenative language running on the BEAM
Contributions:6 PRs, 23 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
concatenative-language
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