Rickard Dybeck
Software Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRickard Dybeck is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years’ experience building backend systems, developer tools and cloud infrastructure, currently focused at Spotify in New York. His career spans Java, PHP and Erlang to Ruby on Rails and Go, and includes founding an internal Rails team at Klarna and creating Eremetic, a Mesos-based container launch framework. He favors service-oriented architecture and turning complex systems into simple, maintainable solutions, with hands-on experience in AWS automation, CI/CD and orchestration tooling. An active contributor to Backstage, he has improved authorization, catalog APIs and developer-facing visibility features that support large-scale developer portals. Collected training in physics, electrical engineering and computer science informs his methodical, systems-level approach to engineering problems.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraComputer Science, Computer Science at Örebro universitetPhysics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science at Karlstad University
Swedish, English, French
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Github Skills (14)
backstage10
api10
backend10
catalog10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
knx8
knexjs8
github-ci6
githubaction-workflow6
portal5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:129 reviews, 26 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rickard primarily focused on back-end development within the Backstage framework. Their contributions included refactoring code related to authorization and API endpoints, specifically within the catalog backend. They also introduced features to make unprocessed entities visible, added sorting and filtering to unprocessed entities tables, and implemented an API to get locations by entity. Furthermore, the user made changes to existing modules and files, refactoring existing code to align with the Backstage framework's architecture.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
alde/ale
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
ALE - the Automated Log Extractor
Contributions:92 commits, 15 PRs, 99 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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