borgcode

Niklas Lundborg

📞 +46 767511951 📧 niklundborg@gmail.com 🏠 Stockholm

Summary

Passionate architect/backend developer with 10+ years experience developing highly scalable backend and deployment systems. Pragmatic coding style in lines with KISS & YAGNI. Focus more on optimizing flows rather than optimizing code. Used to maintaining entire infrastructure stack, with all security and reliability constraints kept in line with requirements. Available for remote work or within Stockholm commute access.

Professional experience

borgcode AB2023-

self employed

During 2023 I needed some flexibility in my life, and have for a long time had the idea to start a company to do ad-hoc consultancy when time is there. Borgcode is now here :)

    Wrapp/Meniga Rewards2015 - 2023

    Backend engineer -> Operations Engineer -> Architect -> CTO

    Cashback platform. where users connect their bank-cards, and through our bank-integrations and collaboration with merchants we built a product to provide users with cashbacks

    • converted large parts of infrastructure to infrastructure as code
    • built various cashback-mechanisms, where one of the more complicated ones dealt handling cases of refund
    • key person in charge of operations
    • rebuilt platform logging system from paid service, to self-hosted while increasing functionality and log-retention. Cost reduction of about $45K/Y
    • rebuilt the platforms pub-sub system to be at least 10x more performant, using much less resources
    • built several bank-integrations

    HiQ2013 - 2015

    Backend consultant

    HiQ is a highly renowned company that provide IT-consultancy services, with offices in several countries, with the largest office in Stockholm

    • worked with the so called common-environment at Ericsson to unify build/test/provisiniong interfaces to enable clean and robust CI/CD systems

    Itellosummer of 2011 and 2012

    Junior java developer

    Builds back-office tools for insurance and banking sector

    • Java server pages
    • tomcat

    Typical tools

    • Golang
    • Python
    • bash
    • SQL
    • AWS
    • Whatever does the job done in the cleanest most effective way

    Education

    KTH Datateknik (Computer science)2008-2013

    Computer science masters program, track autonomous systems