Mats Nilsson
Tech Lead Manager at Google
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolMats Nilsson is a seasoned tech leader and hands-on engineer with 11+ years of experience leading teams at Google and a long history building high-performance software across medical imaging, robotics, communications security, and processor architecture modelling. As a Tech Lead Manager at Google he blends system architecture, real-time distributed systems, and modern cross-platform web UIs to deliver scalable products and keep teams focused on solving hard problems. He co-founded and ran engineering at Acumem, later serving as VP of Engineering at Rogue Wave, demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and deep expertise in performance optimization for multicore and memory systems. An active front-end contributor to the p5.js web editor, he has improved accessibility and internationalization—bringing practical usability improvements to a widely used creative coding tool. Based in Stockholm, he pairs an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from KTH with a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to turning complex technical challenges into delivered outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, EE, M.Sc, EE at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
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Github Skills (12)
i18n-js10
javascript10
user-interface10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
p5js10
react10
keyboard-shortcuts7
shortcuts7
css7
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js-web-editor
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
The p5.js Editor is a website for creating p5.js sketches, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else! You can create, share, or remix p5.js sketches without needing to download or configure anything.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mats's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and internationalization aspects of the p5.js web editor. They implemented features like a color picker, integrated keyboard shortcuts, and updated the application to support Swedish language translation. The changes also involved modifications to the toolbar and navigation components, indicating a focus on improving the overall user experience and accessibility within the editor.
web-editorlaunchedjs-webjavascriptp5-js
matsragnar/designethics
Jun 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
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