Kristian Sakarisson
Engineering Team Lead, AdTech at Wolt
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKristian Sakarisson is an experienced software engineer and team lead based in Helsinki with a decade of hands-on experience building user-focused frontend and cross-platform applications. At Wolt he has led frontend competence, improved support tooling through data-driven initiatives, and now heads AdTech engineering to launch advertising offerings. He combines mentorship and documentation with pragmatic engineering—choosing tools by fit rather than fashion—and enjoys teaching as much as coding. Originally from the Faroe Islands, he prefers English communication despite his very Finnish appearance and is purpose-driven about building software that serves real human needs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at The University of the Faroe Islands
English, Danish, faroese
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Github Skills (121)
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google-maps10
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javascript10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Sakarisson/sakarissonDotCom
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 76 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
react
sakarisson/sakarisson.com
Feb 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:67 PRs, 105 pushes, 70 branches in 4 years 11 months
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