Summary
Mattias Svedhem is an engineering manager and React specialist with 14+ years of experience building high-performance single-page applications and leading product-first teams. He has moved from founding startups to senior engineering roles and VP of Engineering, blending hands-on front-end development with strategic team leadership. His technical toolkit spans TypeScript, GraphQL, Next.js, Node.js and Google Cloud, with a strong focus on UX, testing, and performance. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic collaborator who partners closely with product and design to turn concepts into polished, usable products. Outside of work he brings the same craft mindset to photography in the mountains, experimental cooking, and dialing espresso extraction, reflecting a habit of iterative refinement in both craft and code. Based in Sweden, he combines deep UI engineering expertise with entrepreneurial experience to scale product-led engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Startup Camp – Idea and Concept Development for digital media Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Startup Camp – Idea and Concept Development for digital media Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Communication and Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies at Karlstad University
English, Swedish, German