Per Bergland
CTO at Refapp
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarPer Bergland is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Gothenburg with 11 years of focused experience leading engineering organizations and product teams. He has built and scaled cross-border teams—from startup growth roles at Refapp and Bokio to directing engineering across multiple European hubs at Meltwater—while driving agile, DevOps-first transformations and operating large-scale data platforms like one of the world’s largest Elasticsearch clusters. A hands-on engineer at heart, Per contributes to open-source (notably fixing ECMAScript/IE11 compatibility and data validation issues in the Meteor platform) and leverages rapid problem analysis to enable novel product inventions. He combines product-minded leadership with a track record of hiring, organizational change, and sustainable engineering culture, often acting as the catalyst that helps others thrive. Notably, his experience spans both deep R&D and commercial product delivery, giving him fluency across technical strategy and go-to-market expansion.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
javascript10
meteor10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
typescript-types9
react9
typescript9
typescripts9
nodejs9
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
realtime8
reactive-programming8
npm7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
meteor/meteor
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Per contributed to the Meteor JavaScript App Platform by addressing compatibility issues and enhancing the codebase. Their work included fixing bugs related to ECMAScript features and IE11 compatibility. The user also updated and exported types, and improved the codebase by adding methods for data validation. They also made changes related to upgrading dependencies by removing dependencies, like Blaze, and adding new features like a method to check for valid data.
app-platformmeteorjavascriptframeworktoolkit
perbergland/typescript-l8n
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
A pattern for localized strings in Typescript
Contributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 6 months
stringsjavascriptlocalizedpatterntypescript
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