Johan Lindström
Senior Software Engineer at Embark Studios
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Lindström is a senior software engineer based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience building high-impact systems across consumer and financial domains. He spent over a decade at Spotify driving foundational work—designing playback APIs used across clients for the last ten years, filing nine patent applications, and conceiving monetization strategies to materially increase ad revenue. Johan combines deep systems design (Unicode collation, low-footprint libraries) with hands-on delivery and project management, and now applies that expertise at Embark Studios. Earlier in his career he built mission-critical trade reporting and firm-wide frameworks for Lehman Brothers/Nomura and co-founded a successful Mac software company, showing both enterprise and entrepreneurial breadth. Known for practical architecture choices and prototypes that shape product directions, he balances long-term vision with shipping robust production code. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Umeå University and brings a knack for turning tricky cross-platform problems into low-overhead, maintainable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Dalhousie UniversityMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Umeå University
English, Swedish, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
json-parser10
json10
cpp10
json-serialization10
cairo4
python4
drawing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
punchfox/spotify-json
Sep 2016 - Nov 2019
Fast and nice to use C++ JSON library.
Contributions:64 pushes, 31 branches in 3 years 2 months
cppc-plus-plusheader-onlyjson-librarycpp17
spotify/spotify-json
Apr 2014 - Mar 2021
Fast and nice to use C++ JSON library.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 356 commits in 7 years
cppjsonjson-librariesjson-parserjson-serialization
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