Niclas Nilsson
Co-founder at Papertend
Falkenberg, Halland County, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorNiclas Nilsson is a veteran software practitioner and co-founder with over three decades of hands-on development experience and roughly 15 years in senior entrepreneurial roles. He blends deep technical craft—rooted in choices of languages, tools and processes—with a coach’s mindset, teaching teams to adopt test- and behavior-driven development, pair programming and automation. As founder of Papertend and fooheads and former lead editor for InfoQ Architecture, he moves fluidly between writing, educating and building production software. His background spans embedded real-time systems, public transport ticketing, and broad consultancy work, giving him a knack for turning complex, mission-critical requirements into pragmatic engineering practices. A self-described productivity junkie, he quietly elevates team performance through process changes as much as code. Based in Falkenberg, Sweden, he combines local roots with a global perspective on software craft and developer education.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (40)
terraform9
graph9
gatling8
loadtest8
infrastructure-as-code8
java7
performance-testing7
aws7
kotlin7
load-testing6
scala6
terraform-provider6
cicd6
javascript6
netty6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fooheads/pipeline
Nov 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
fooheads/stdlib
Mar 2023 - Jun 2025
The fooheads Clojure(Script) standard library
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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