Olivier Payen
Engineering Manager at Plugsurfing
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolOlivier Payen is an Engineering Manager based in Stockholm with over 14 years in software development and a decade in leadership roles focused on mobile engineering. He has led teams at Plugsurfing, Klarna and Truecaller, scaling Android squads, improving reliability and shaping product direction for hundreds of millions of users. Known for a strong design sensibility, he blends hands-on technical ownership (Android, Kotlin, Coroutines, Dagger) with people-first management: hiring, coaching and creating sustainable, high-performing teams. He has a track record of driving architectural rewrites and introducing engineering practices like CI, automated testing and Agile across organizations. Comfortable as the bridge to partners such as Google, Olivier gravitates toward pragmatic solutions that balance speed, quality and team wellbeing. His background in full‑stack and backend systems (C#/.NET) gives him breadth beyond mobile, enabling cross-discipline collaboration and long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at IMERIR
French, English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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forms
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browser
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windows
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silverlight
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audio
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javascript
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Github Skills (76)
windows-phone10
render10
lottie10
animation10
after-effects10
cross-platform10
android-library10
android10
square10
kotlin10
ios10
react-native10
scrolling10
smooth10
react10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opayen/react-native-performance
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Monitor and measure React Native performance
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
reactmonitorreact-native-performancereact-nativeperformance
opayen/android-notification-access-sample
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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