Peter Nycander
VP Engineering at Mynewsdesk
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Nycander is a Stockholm-based VP Engineering with 13 years of experience building web-first products and leading engineering teams, most recently rising through leadership at Mynewsdesk. He combines deep hands-on expertise as a senior full-stack and GraphQL specialist with a practical management style shaped by consultancy roles across media and entertainment clients like TV4 Media and SF Studios. Comfortable toggling between architecture, delivery and mentoring, he has repeatedly moved from individual contributor to strategic engineering leader while running his own consultancy. Trained at KTH in computer engineering, he pairs academic rigor with a developer’s love for the web platform and a knack for turning short-term consult engagements into lasting technical improvements. An understated detail: his career shows a pattern of stepping into mission-critical roles during product transitions, making him adept at stabilizing and scaling engineering organizations.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Datateknik, Master of Science (MS) Datateknik at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyTeknikprogrammet, Teknikprogrammet at Åva Gymnasium
English, Swedish
Github Skills (56)
react10
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
amazon-dynamodb10
mse10
dynamodb10
playback10
declarative10
frontend10
vod10
documentation10
drm9
video-player9
amazon9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peternycander/kex
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:65 commits in 28 days
peternycander/percep-game
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 8 days
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