Martin Svalin
Engineering Manager at Kivra
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolMartin Svalin is an experienced engineering manager and backend engineer with 14 years building reliable systems in Ruby, Erlang and Elixir, currently leading the User Domain backend at Kivra in Stockholm. He has a strong track record at consumer and mobility-focused companies—Klarna, Volvo Car Mobility and Volvo Cars—designing resilient data pipelines and domain models that power high-throughput services. A hands-on leader who moved from individual contributor roles into team building and mob-programming culture, he emphasizes knowledge sharing, testing and maintainable code. Martin is an active contributor to the Elixir ecosystem, improving ExUnit and Exercism test suites—work that underscores his focus on robust developer tooling and test quality. His background in economics and philosophy adds a pragmatic, user-centered perspective to technical decision making.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Economics Philosophy, Economics Philosophy at Lund University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (16)
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functional-programming10
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exunit10
doctest10
elixir10
testing10
tracks9
maintenance8
documentation8
datetime6
unit-testing6
activerecord6
ruby6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/elixir
Feb 2016 - Jul 2021
Exercism exercises in Elixir.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 31 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the testing aspects of the Elixir exercises, focusing on ensuring code correctness. Their work involved writing and modifying test cases, verifying expected behaviors, and addressing potential issues related to code functionality, as seen in the "Bank-account," "Acronym," "Palindrome-products," and "Binary search" exercise commits. Furthermore, the user updated tests to handle deprecation warnings and addressed other test-related issues.
exercismelixirexercism-exercisesexercism-trackcommunity-contributions-accepted
elixir-lang/elixir
Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 16 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the Elixir language's testing framework, ExUnit. Their work included fixing bugs related to the `:only` option in doctests, clarifying documentation, and improving the overall test suite functionality. They also refactored code to enhance readability and maintainability within the doctest module. The user's contributions directly improved the reliability and clarity of Elixir's testing capabilities.
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