Samuel Rivas
Lead Engineer at Klarna Engineering
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolSamuel Rivas is a Lead Engineer based in Stockholm with 18 years of experience building highly available, distributed systems across finance, media and embedded video domains. He blends deep systems-level expertise in C, Erlang/OTP and video/MPEG standards with hands-on leadership—designing production Erlang frontends, RIak/RabbitMQ-backed APIs, and early NLP infrastructure for personalization. Comfortable switching between individual contributor and team lead roles, he has steered R&D and EU-funded research projects as well as production-critical services at Klarna and Schibsted. Samuel’s background in computer science and organizational leadership gives him a rare combination of protocol-level technical depth and pragmatic delivery focus. An under-the-radar strength is his long-running work on video middleware and set-top box systems, which informs his systems-thinking in modern cloud architectures.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Escuela de Negocios CaixanovaIngeniería Informática, Computer Science, Ingeniería Informática, Computer Science at Universidade da CoruñaOrganizational Leadership, Organizational Leadership at Försvarshögskolan
English, Spanish, Galician, Swedish
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Github Skills (90)
nix10
nixos10
linux10
nixpkgs10
graph9
ghc9
cabal8
stack8
opengl8
terraform8
aws8
ide8
windows7
gradle-scala7
gpu7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
martinjlogan/erlware-site
Dec 2007 - Jun 2009
Contributions:137 commits in 1 year 5 months
samuelrivas/monorepo
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1343 commits, 6 PRs, 995 pushes in 7 years 1 month
nixosmonoreposhareable
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