Niklas Bivald
CEO And Founder at Lightfinder
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Bivald is a seasoned technology founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building data-intensive, safety-critical systems for aviation and public-sector impact. He founded and scaled companies that reverse-engineered aircraft "black boxes" to improve aviation safety and now consults and builds products for major aviation players while also developing Allie, a coordination tool for child and youth welfare used by multiple Swedish municipalities. Hands-on across architecture, cloud-based automation and Python-driven pipelines, he combines deep engineering chops with product-led social purpose and a track record of profitable, self-funded ventures. A former Spotify developer and long-time educator at Hyper Island, he blends practical coding experience with a knack for translating complex technical problems into real-world solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Rhetoric, Rhetoric at Södertörns HögskolaDigital Media, Digital Media at Hyperisland, Crew 12
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
1,889reputation
228kreached
25answers
48questions
Github Skills (200)
python10
sftp10
encryption10
ansible-module10
gunicorn10
task-scheduler10
wsgi-server10
task-queue10
redis10
amqp10
task-manager10
ftp9
wsgi9
debian9
webdav9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
VvanGemert/munin-mobile
Oct 2010 - Dec 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 1 month
templateiphonemobile-templatemuninios
bivald/pyarrow-on-pypy3
Sep 2020 - Apr 2023
How to build pyarrow on PyPy3 (for use with parquet files in pandas)
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
pandasparquetpyarrow
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