Summary
Joshua Karjala-svendsen is an entrepreneurial technology leader with 14 years of experience founding and scaling product-focused companies and developer teams from Madrid. As Partner & Head of Technology at Founders and CEO/co-founder of Kiosk TV, he blends hands-on backend and mobile engineering with strategic product design to launch and grow digital services. His technical roots span Django/Python, PostgreSQL and scalable cloud deployments, informed by early work building APIs, iOS apps and data pipelines for startups like Everplaces and GameAnalytics. Joshua prefers to build teams first, then businesses, and actively seeks technical co-founders to join new ventures—bringing both maker instincts and a track record of turning prototypes into operational products. An interdisciplinary background in design, computer science and art gives him a practical eye for product experience as well as engineering trade-offs.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Art, Diploma Art at Kunsthøjskolen
BSc Product Design and Innovation, BSc Product Design and Innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Technical University of Denmark
University College London
English, Danish, German, Spanish