Kristoffer Bjärkefur
Founder - CEO & CTO at Primi.ai
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolKristoffer Bjärkefur is a founder and technical leader with a decade of experience building tools and workflows that let development researchers focus on evidence rather than infrastructure. He led data engineering, reproducibility and security practices at the World Bank’s DIME—supporting 100+ projects—and now runs Primi.ai as CEO & CTO to scale those capabilities. A prolific creator of researcher-facing software (ietoolkit, iefieldkit) and co-author of Data for Development Impact, he combines expert Stata coding with advanced Python and practical R skills. He’s known for translating complex technical needs into low-training, high-security solutions and has trained 50+ teams in Git/GitHub and applied data practices across dozens of field projects. Based in Stockholm, he brings academic grounding in economics and computer science to pragmatic, open-source-first tooling for international development.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Political Science; Economics; Economics and, Bachelor, Political Science; Economics; Economics and at Lund University LundMaster of Arts, International Relations and International Economics; International Development, Master of Arts, International Relations and International Economics; International Development at The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Erasmus Mundus Stipend Visiting Student, Economics, Arabic, Mathematics, Erasmus Mundus Stipend Visiting Student, Economics, Arabic, Mathematics at American University of BeirutStanford Summer Intensive Studies in Computer Science, Computer Science, Stanford Summer Intensive Studies in Computer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Swedish, Arabic, stata, python, r
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (81)
github10
sec10
latex10
git10
analytics10
stata10
reproducible-research10
visualization10
data-security10
ado10
r9
monitoring9
data-analytics9
sensor9
vote9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
worldbank/repkit
Oct 2023 - Feb 2026
A Stata package with tools related to computational reproducibility
Contributions:10 releases, 18 reviews, 43 PRs in 2 years 3 months
statalinterpackage-managerreproducibilityreproducible-research
worldbank/dimeanalytics
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
The GitHub home of DIME Analytics
Contributions:19 PRs, 81 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 10 months
dimeanalytics
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