Niklas Borglund
Game Developer
Sweden
Summary
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SeniorNiklas Borglund is a systems-focused game developer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building both game systems and the tools that support them. As Lead Programmer at Lavapotion since 2017 he combines hands-on Unity development with product-level ownership, shipping features and infrastructure for live games. His background includes building localization and tooling solutions—like a long-maintained Unity Smart Localization plugin—and SDKs that connect games to messaging and REST services. Comfortable across gameplay, editor tooling, and backend integration, he’s known for pragmatic problem solving and a knack for making post-release updates and multi-language support reliable. Based in Gothenburg, he pairs entrepreneurial experience from multiple startups with a consistent focus on developer-facing tools that accelerate production. He’s also a friendly coffee maven and unabashed food fan, which makes him as good at team culture as he is at code.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (38)
assetbundle10
localization10
unity3d10
animation8
draw8
game-engine7
twilio7
sms7
gif7
microsoft-teams7
cpp7
spritesheet6
sprite6
bots6
facebook6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NiklasBorglund/AssetBundleCreator
Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
AssetBundleCreator is a plugin for Unity3D that makes it really easy for everyone to create asset bundles.
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
assetbundleunity3d
NiklasBorglund/Smart-Localization-2
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
A localization plugin for the Unity3D game engine
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
game-enginelocalizationunity3d
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