Joel Carlbark
Staff Engineer at Remote
Gothenburg, Sweden
Summary
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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.
13 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 (189)
programming-language10
abstraction10
genstage10
coverage10
ets10
alpine-linux10
rabbitmq10
lru10
cache-storage10
binary-search-tree10
compiler10
ecto10
scalable10
elixir10
publisher10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vorce/gonz
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
A bland static site generator
Contributions:13 releases, 9 reviews, 46 commits in 3 years 5 months
site-generatorstatic-sitestatic-site-generatormarkdown
Psvensso/elixir-docs
Nov 2015 - Dec 2021
Atom plugin for displaying Elixir docs directly in the editor
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 comments, 1 issue in 6 years 2 months
atom-pluginatomelixir
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