Josef Cullhed
Founder at BoostContent
Greater Uppsala Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJosef Cullhed is a Swedish founder and hands-on technologist with a decade of experience building product-focused engineering teams and startups. He currently runs Herodotus AB while serving as CTO at BoostContent and lead developer at Ensure Endpoint Technologies, blending strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering. Josef founded MercuriusData.com, an AI-powered stock screener, and earlier co-founded MeritCrowd and the open search project Alexandria.org, showing a persistent interest in applied ML, search, and data-driven products. Trained in mathematics at Uppsala University, he pairs analytical rigor with a practical, get-things-done approach—often taking on whatever role is needed to move a company forward. An understated strength is his ability to pivot between founding roles and deep technical delivery, making him equally comfortable shaping vision or shipping core features.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Uppsala University
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Github Skills (36)
search-engine10
full-text-search10
firefox8
leveldb8
tostring8
chrome8
drawing8
testing8
arima7
preact7
visualization7
chromium7
dom7
automation7
canvas7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexandria-org/alexandria
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Full text search engine powering Alexandria.org - the open search engine.
Contributions:21 releases, 1 review, 715 commits in 1 year 4 months
full-text-searchsearch-engine
alexandria-org/alexandria-api
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
API for alexandria.org - the open search engine
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 9 months
search-engine
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