Ragnar Edholm
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Happy Money
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRagnar Edholm is a seasoned engineering executive with 16 years of experience building high-performing teams and scalable infrastructure across startups and enterprises. Currently SVP of Engineering at Thiink and advising multiple companies, he combines hands-on distributed systems expertise with strategic product and organizational leadership. He has led critical infrastructure at Facebook and VMware, driven platform maturity at Happy Money, and built analytics and real-time systems at Quantcast and Oracle. An inventor with several patents, Ragnar emphasizes long-range architecture while delivering customer value and fostering a self-improving engineering culture. He contributes to open-source projects such as the Defold game engine, focusing on core engine reliability and GUI/physics improvements, reflecting a willingness to dive into low-level technical challenges. Based in Sunnyvale with a master’s in computer science from KTH, he is known for aligning resource planning, strong prioritization, and motivating teams toward continuous improvement.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
English, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Danish
Github Skills (10)
debug10
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
game-dev10
opengl9
2d9
graphics2d9
lua6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
defold/defold
May 2010 - Aug 2016
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3396 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ragnar primarily focused on implementing and fixing issues related to the Defold game engine, specifically within the context of core functionalities and its related systems. Their contributions involved resolving bugs related to the physics system, sprite animations, and tile map rendering, indicating a focus on core engine features. They also made improvements to the GUI system.
gamegamesdefoldgamedevc-plus-plus
defold/demo-geometrywars
Nov 2012 - Jul 2013
Old demo project
Contributions:2 commits in 8 months
demo-project
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