Niklas Barsk
Team Lead at Opera Software
Greater Linköping Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolNiklas Barsk is a seasoned software leader with 12+ years at Opera, currently leading a small team of data scientists for Opera for Android while also acting as Team Lead. He blends hands-on engineering experience across C++, Java, Kotlin and Go with product-focused project management, having driven major mobile browser rewrites, cross-product analytics systems and monetization improvements. Comfortable toggling between big-picture architecture and meticulous implementation, he has a track record of unifying distributed teams and bringing order to complex, multi-platform projects. A maker at heart, he develops a Kotlin Android app with a Go backend as a hobby—illustrating his ongoing curiosity for modern mobile and backend stacks. Based in the Greater Linköping area, he pairs rigorous CS training with deep UX and client-side expertise honed over a decade of shipping browsers.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Folkuniversitetet i LinköpingNaturvetenskapsprogrammet, Naturvetenskapsprogrammet at Gränsälvsgymnasiet, ÖvertorneåMaster of science, Computer science, Master of science, Computer science at Tekniska högskolan vid Linköpings universitet
English, Swedish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
4,047reputation
218kreached
47answers
19questions
android
top-5%
google-api
top-5%
google-app-engine
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Github Skills (72)
maintenance-mode10
android10
firebase-realtime-database9
firebase-database9
material-components9
ui-components9
firebase-remote-config9
firebase9
google-api9
google-app-engine9
firebase-storage9
material-design9
android-sdk9
firebase-inappmessaging9
firebase-functions9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nibarius/wk-wakaran
Jan 2015 - Jul 2024
User script for WaniKani that adds an "I don't know the answer" button to reviews.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 9 years 7 months
userscripts
nibarius/opera-park-android
Jun 2017 - Oct 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 96 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 4 months
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