Lisa Övermyr
Engineering Manager at Schibsted
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Övermyr is an engineering manager based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and delivering online media products. She has progressed through hands-on roles from product engineer to tech lead and now manages engineering at Schibsted, bringing deep editorial project experience and an operator’s mindset. Comfortable spanning front- and back-end concerns, she combines product empathy with technical leadership to align newsroom needs and engineering delivery. Her background includes leading product engineering at Mic and heading open source initiatives, signaling a mix of startup agility and platform awareness. Trained in gender studies as well as technical disciplines, she brings a thoughtful, user-centred perspective to team culture and product decisions. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates editorial priorities into reliable, scalable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Linn��universitetetGender studies, Gender studies at Södertörns högskola
English, Swedish
Github Skills (56)
preload10
react-component10
webapp10
player10
browser9
video-player9
api9
react9
compiler9
parser8
nextjs8
json7
javascript7
icalendar7
typescript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
micnews/article-json-immutable-methods
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
ellell/github-rsvp
Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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