Karl Dahlgren
Engineering Manager, Competence Lead at Klarna
Solna kommun, Sweden
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Top SchoolKarl Dahlgren is an engineering manager and competence lead with a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems across fintech and e-commerce. He led backend efforts at PriceRunner managing platforms that process over 150 million prices and now drives engineering and capability growth at Klarna. Combining hands-on backend development, architecture work in real-time analytics at Panopticon, and experience as a tech lead and speaker, he blends technical depth with people leadership. His academic background spans several Swedish universities culminating in distributed systems-focused graduate study at KTH, reflecting a strong foundation in scalable, time-sensitive systems. Notably, he has moved between consultancy, product, and research-adjacent roles, giving him a pragmatic perspective on delivering resilient, data-intensive services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Gotland UniversityMaster, Software Engineering of Distributed System, Master, Software Engineering of Distributed System at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Malmö UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Karlstad UniversityBachelor, Computer science, Bachelor, Computer science at Stockholm UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Umeå University
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Github Skills (26)
docker10
web-application10
restful-api10
cross-platform10
java10
soap10
mock-server10
tomcat10
restful10
api10
mocking10
rest-api10
castle10
maven6
jax-rs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
karldahlgren/raccoon
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:43 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
castlemock/castlemock
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Castle Mock is a web application that provides the functionality to mock out RESTful APIs and SOAP web services.
Contributions:40 releases, 6 reviews, 910 commits in 7 years 4 months
web-applicationtomcatmockingweb-servicemock
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