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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34kreached
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Github Skills (61)
docker-desktop10
cassandra9
sql9
go9
sql-database9
database9
cpp8
scylla8
amazon-dynamodb8
mailjet8
mailchimp8
cockroachdb8
edge-computing8
messaging8
nosql7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
modfin/mmailer
Oct 2022 - Dec 2025
Service that unifies third party email providers, Mandrill, Sendgrid, Mailjet and generic SMTP into a an api
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 3 years 2 months
e-mailmailjetsendgridsmtpmail
joeledstrom/brookshear-emu
Oct 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 2 months
emulator
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