Viktor Hedefalk
Software Engineer at Eir Insurance
Uppsala, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolViktor Hedefalk is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building functional, developer-friendly systems using Haskell, Scala, Rust, Purescript, TypeScript, Nix and Kubernetes. He combines hands-on backend work—contributing fixes to projects like the Lift Framework—with full-stack SaaS experience from his long-running company Wooden Stake and roles at Akka, Klarna and others. Viktor favors people over process and champions developer experience, preferring microrepos-as-monolith approaches and automation rituals that keep repositories healthy. He has delivered production systems across fintech, insurance and regulatory tech, and has practical experience with cloud-native tooling and FP abstractions in real-world integrations. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he blends academic computer science background with entrepreneurial grit and a taste for experimenting with emerging languages like Roc. Colleagues value him for shipping reliable solutions and simplifying complex systems so teams can move faster.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at National University of SingaporeComputer Science, Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (18)
application-framework10
app-framework10
scala10
lift10
web-framework10
webservice9
soap9
webpages9
json8
maven6
jax-rs6
sql-server6
orm6
executable-jar6
sbt6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
lift/framework
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Lift Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 24 days
Contributions summary:Viktor primarily contributed to the Lift Framework, fixing issues and improving its functionality. Their commits focused on addressing timezone specifications and warnings related to for-comprehensions within the core JSON functionality. The user also made improvements to the sitemap, specifically the `FlexMenuBuilder`, addressing path issues and optimizing code, suggesting a focus on the framework's web-based features and menu navigation.
frameworkscalaliftjavareal-time
hedefalk/freerouting
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
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