Johan Östling
Backend Lead at ICA Gruppen
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Östling is a backend lead and founder with 12 years of experience building Scala and Kotlin services, primarily in communication and finance domains. He blends hands-on engineering with leadership—shaping teams at ICA Gruppen and running his own consultancy and game studio, Palabit. A strong advocate of test-driven development and agile practices, he has delivered Java enterprise systems and coached colleagues in TDD and Scala. Johan’s background in speech communication and medical engineering gives him a rare mix of technical rigor and attention to how systems communicate, which he applies to robust, well-tested backend designs.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Medical Engineering, Medical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySpeech Communication and Rhetoric, Speech Communication and Rhetoric at Södertörns högskola
Swedish, English, German
Github Skills (32)
cqrs10
ddd10
reactive9
concurrent9
akka9
streaming9
high-performance9
concurrency8
distributed-systems8
java8
jvm8
akka-streams7
cloud-native7
actor-model7
message-driven6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jostly/specd
Aug 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 3 months
unit-teststestingspecificationsunit
gamkedo-la/the-pit
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:144 pushes, 1 branch, 9 tags in 2 months
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