Johan Borestad
Lead Developer at ELK Studios
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Borestad is a pragmatic lead developer and software architect with 11 years of professional experience building high-performance, scalable web and game platforms across startups and large enterprises. He blends deep full‑stack expertise—from low‑level networking and performance tuning to UX and WebGL/VR—with hands‑on infrastructure work in CI/CD, containerization, and automation. Known as a pattern‑recognition problem solver, Johan has led architecture and optimization efforts at companies like NetEnt, Telia and Klarna, and most recently heads development at ELK Studios. He mentors teams, promotes strong team spirit, and prioritizes manufacturable, cost‑effective systems that users actually enjoy. Outside work he obsessively experiments with home automation, KVM/LXD/Docker and GPU offloading—practical hobbies that inform his system design choices. His long arc as a polyglot coder and book reviewer shows a rare mix of pragmatic production discipline and relentless curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Högskoleingenjör Datalogi Web Programming Architecture, Högskoleingenjör Datalogi Web Programming Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
command-line-tool10
file-search10
pattern10
service-worker10
fetch10
nodejs10
batch-rename10
filesystem10
popup10
regex10
tooltip10
command-line10
ripgrep10
grep10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
borestad/borestad.github.io
Apr 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 1 month
borestad/cron-boilerplate
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Cron Boilerplate
Contributions:9 PRs, 225 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
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