Tobias Hasselrot
Innovation Tech Lead
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolTobias Hasselrot is an Innovation Tech Lead and seasoned engineering executive with 17 years of experience building consumer web and mobile products for millions of users and a lifelong passion for coding that began on a Commodore VIC-20. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering and AI architecture—covering data collection, model design/training and real‑time production deployments—with product and business leadership gained as a founder and VP/CTO across startups and scaleups. Tobias has led teams from early product-market fit to growth, helped win Mini Seedcamp Copenhagen and reached Seedcamp London finals, and even contributed iOS background audio support to the popular react-native-video library. Based in Greater Stockholm, he thrives in creative, high-performance environments where technical depth meets entrepreneurial drive to turn bold ideas into reliable, user-facing systems.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at Stockholm UniversityMaster Computer Science and Engineering, Master Computer Science and Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyNational University of Singapore
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Github Skills (4)
react-native10
avplayer10
objective-c10
ios10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TheWidlarzGroup/react-native-video
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
A <Video /> component for react-native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the `react-native-video` library, focusing on iOS-specific implementations. Their work involved adding functionality for playing audio in the background, even when the app is inactive, by modifying the `RCTVideo.m` file. The commits include changes to the `Video.ios.js` and `RCTVideoManager.m` files to support the added background playback property, alongside fixes for issues within the notification center.
react-nativereactvideocomponent-video
mewantit/django-imageresize
Jun 2009 - Mar 2010
Contributions:19 commits in 9 months
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