K Paulsson
Tech Lead at Pej
Lund, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolK Paulsson is a tech lead with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and embedded systems, currently leading engineering at Pej in Lund, Sweden. He has progressed through hands-on roles to solutions architect and tech lead manager at Sinch, where he designed provisioning APIs, standardized CI pipelines, and modernized stacks with NestJS, SWC, Jest and Playwright. His background spans medical-device firmware and low-latency systems to full-stack web development, pairing deep systems thinking with practical delivery and team coaching. An Oxford PhD and Cambridge Part III alumnus, he blends strong theoretical training with product-focused engineering. He also contributes to open-source tooling such as the TikZ diagram editor—adding parser anchor support and improving OS X GUI validators—highlighting an eye for developer UX and robustness.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of OxfordMaster of Mathematics / Master of Advanced Study (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Mathematics / Master of Advanced Study (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at University of CambridgeERASMUS Physics, ERASMUS Physics at Queen's University BelfastBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at Lund University
Swedish, English, Danish
Github Skills (6)
objective-c10
parser10
parsing10
parse10
cocoa10
error-handling9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tikzit/tikzit
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
pgf/TikZ diagram editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:K primarily contributed to the implementation of new features for the TikZ diagram editor, including anchor support within the parser and the OS X GUI. They modified the code to include anchor points for edges, which involved changes to multiple files such as the property inspector, assembler, and edge classes. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the parser error handling, improving the user experience by pinpointing the specific line and location of errors within the code. Finally, the user implemented an NSFormatter subclass for validating user input of TikZ code within the OS X GUI.
tikzpgfdiagramdiagram-editor
gnzzz/IT8951
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Raspberry Pi node.js package for e-papers controlled by IT8951 such as WaveShare e-paper HAT.
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 17 PRs in 1 month
raspberry-picontrollednode-jsraspberryhat
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