Karl Backström
System Design Engineer at Volvo Group
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Backström is a seasoned System Design Engineer and embedded software specialist with 15+ years of hands-on experience across firmware, board bring-up, and production test automation. He blends deep low-level C/C++ and Python expertise with practical hardware skills—PCB design, pick-and-place, reflow soldering and on-site factory troubleshooting—to take products from schematics to mass production. Karl has worked across industries and cultures, leveraging his deep knowledge of Japan’s business practices from multi-year stints in Tokyo to smooth international collaborations and supplier coordination. He’s comfortable across OSes and toolchains, administering large-scale version control systems and configuring cross-compilation and Yocto builds for embedded Linux devices. As a founder and consultant, he combines product ownership and technical leadership, bridging stakeholder priorities with hands-on engineering. A less obvious asset is his parallel life as a group training instructor, which sharpens his team coaching, communication and endurance under pressure.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management - International, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management - International at Linköping University
Swedish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (46)
dmx5128
arduino-ide8
arduino8
ide8
google-home8
esp82667
iobroker7
esp327
raspberry-pi6
rest-api6
zigbee6
api6
rest6
platformio6
fritzbox6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Xmegaduino/Xmegaduino
May 2011 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 135 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years
arduino
akafugu/twilcd
Dec 2011 - Aug 2013
Contributions:30 commits in 1 year 8 months
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