Robert Karlsson
Director Of Technical Research And Development & Co-Founder at Agatha Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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SeniorRobert Karlsson is a Director of Technical R&D and co-founder with 10+ years building secure, scalable SaaS platforms in regulated environments from Tokyo. He blends platform architecture, identity/security, document management, and data pipelines to turn ambiguous product needs into reliable, low-cost systems while staying hands-on in design, code review, and critical technical decisions. He emphasizes long-term technical sustainability and operational simplicity, often optimizing event handling and persistence layers—evidenced by Kafka integration and PostgreSQL fixes contributed to the Conductor orchestration project. Comfortable operating at a strategic level, he also mentors teams and translates business goals into pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Fluent in English and Swedish with basic Japanese, he favors environments where technical quality and deliberate trade-offs drive product value.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
javas10
kafka10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
postgresql10
java10
spring-boot9
orchestration9
microservices8
workflow-automation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
conductor-oss/conductor
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Conductor is an event driven orchestration platform providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for your applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 16 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on enhancing the Kafka event queue integration within the Conductor platform. Their work included adding Kafka event queue support, improving message handling, and integrating queue metrics. Furthermore, the user addressed specific issues within the PostgreSQL persistence layer, fixing time-related issues for task logs and improving event insertion logic. This demonstrates a focus on improving the system's event handling capabilities and database interactions.
distributed-systemsdurable-executiongrpcjavajavascript
Robban1980/one-click-miner-vnext
Jul 2019 - May 2022
One Click Miner for Vertcoin
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
clickminerbitcoinone-click
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