Summary
Joel Hansson is a Senior Developer based in Gothenburg, Sweden, with 18 years of experience building and maintaining reliable, production-grade systems. He combines deep hands-on expertise in web and backend technologies—particularly Ruby on Rails, PHP, and system administration on Debian/Linux—with operational tooling like Docker, Elasticsearch, Prometheus and Grafana. Joel currently leads engineering work at TOOLBUILDERS while freelancing on software development and operations, reflecting a blend of long-term product ownership and client-facing adaptability. His background includes founding roles and work on high-traffic platforms (e.g., Flattr and Metaboli), so he’s comfortable shipping features and running the infrastructure that keeps them healthy. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, ops-aware engineering that balances code quality with systems reliability.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Färnebo folkhögskola
Swedish, English