Stefan Ekerfelt
Founding Engineer at Encore
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Ekerfelt is a founding engineer with four years of startup experience and a decade-plus background leading engineering teams at Google and Spotify across Stockholm and internationally. He blends hands-on backend development—recently contributing schema and protobuf enhancements to the popular Encore open-source platform—with engineering leadership roles that span individual contributor to director-level responsibilities. His work spans distributed systems, type-safe platform design, and monetization systems, reflecting a practical focus on scalable, production-ready APIs. Stefan pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering from Chalmers and an exchange at University of Washington with real-world product delivery at large tech firms. He’s comfortable moving between code and strategy, having hired and managed teams at Google while now building product and platform capabilities at Encore. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to bridge detailed protocol/schema work with product-facing outcomes, improving metadata handling that enables richer API behavior.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Science Software Engineering, Master of Science Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
Github Skills (11)
go10
protobuf10
protocol-buffers10
apidoc9
microservices8
api8
microservices-application8
golang8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
encoredev/encore
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Open Source Development Platform for building robust type-safe distributed systems with declarative infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:359 reviews, 27 commits, 192 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily focused on updating the schema definitions within the `encoredev/encore` repository, likely in preparation for implementing header support. This involved modifying protobuf files (e.g., `schema.proto`), adding new fields such as `raw_tag` and `tags` to the `Field` message, and introducing new messages like `Tag`. These changes were essential for enhancing the platform's API capabilities and the handling of metadata. The user's contributions are centered around extending the platform's core functionality.
gcpserverlessdevelopment-platformengineaws
ekerfelt/pongo
Mar 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
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