Vanja Tufvesson
Engineering Director at Remote
Greater Malmö Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolVanja Tufvesson is an engineering director and former CTO with a decade of experience scaling product-led engineering teams and building global HR and recruitment platforms. She currently leads HR Core at Remote, managing 80 engineers across 18 teams and hiring over 100 engineers this year while balancing rapid prototyping with long-term scalability. Technical roots span backend systems in Java/Kotlin, TypeScript/Node, PostgreSQL and AWS, and she’s shipped products from MVPs to enterprise-grade services including unbiased interview software. A founder of Pink Programming, she combines hands-on engineering with deep commitment to diversity and DEIB—running internal networks and public initiatives that have trained thousands of women and non-binary developers. Comfortable at the intersection of product, people and code, she pairs strategic leadership with occasional hands-on backend work and a knack for turning complex hiring and technical trade-offs into pragmatic outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityExchange Year Computer Science, Exchange Year Computer Science at RMIT University
English, Swedish, Norwegian, DanishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PinkProgramming/pepparkakskodning
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 8 months
vanjakarin/xmas-camp
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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