Joel Edström
CEO at The Gang Studio
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolJoel Edström is a seasoned media and gaming executive with 15+ years building teams, products and new revenue streams across startups and large enterprises from Stockholm. As CEO of The Gang Studio and former Head of Production for Viaplay Studios Animation, he combines creative sales instincts with a knack for spotting hidden business opportunities and assembling cross-disciplinary talent to execute ambitious projects. His background spans VR, branded content and animation, and includes founding startups and chairing a VR producer programme—evidence of hands-on product intuition as well as strategic leadership. Recognized repeatedly for his cultural leadership, he excels at turning experimental ideas into commercial initiatives that scale. Colleagues describe him as energetic and tenacious, often finding unconventional partnership paths that others miss.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
2015 Kommunikation och media, 2015 Kommunikation och media at LHS
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
database10
docker-desktop10
messaging9
cockroachdb9
cassandra9
sql9
sql-database9
cpp9
message-bus8
distributed-database8
cloud-native8
scylla8
go8
distributed-systems8
message-queue8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joeledstrom/SpreadsheetTest
May 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 3 years 3 months
spreadsheetsapigoogle-apigoogleandroid
modfin/epoxy
Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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