Senior Software Engineer doing Front-End/Full-Stack/UX
Hi! My name is Carl-David Granbäck, an adventurous software engineer with broad experience from consulting, product organizations and startups. Fell in love with code in the late 90s, and with people since day one.
Positive, meticulous and adaptive. Big sense of commitment and an eye for details, whether it's code, content or design. T-shaped with an emphasis on front-end, but a generalist by nature. Responsible and pragmatic approach to the profession and a tech-agnostic mindset. Enjoys trying out new stuff and creating meaningful software with snappy UIs.
A good listener with social skills that thrives in global multi-cultural teams. Five years of international experience from studies and consulting work in Asia, and three years of bicycle touring to remote corners of the planet. Crossed three continents and pedaled over 40,000 kilometers with many lessons learned along the way.
Holds an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Lives with my partner and two sons on an old 40-acre farm, enabling a lifestyle close to nature and a wide range of creative hobbies. Located on the West Coast of Sweden, between Gothenburg and Oslo.
Company & Mindset
KM25 is a remote locality situated on the coast of Western Sahara. It's a kitesurfing spot in a lagoon surrounded by the desert. It's named after being located 25 kms from the closest town, and it has a special meaning to me.
But KM25 could also be elsewhere. An imaginary place 25 kms from anything. I like the abstractness of this name, along with some symbolic properties, so that's what I decided to call my company.
Between 2013-2015, I spent two years cycling from Sweden all the way down to South Africa. I passed KM25 on my way south and ended up staying there for a long time, and the place came to mean a lot to me. As I put it in my diary: There's really nothing here, and at same time there is so much
. It was the kind of place that made you stop and notice the small things in life.
25 kms is a distance that is doable in an hour on a bike, or in a day by foot. Multiply that by 4 and you get 100 kms, easily rideable in one day. Multiply that by 4 and you will reach 400 kms.
That is enough to cross many countries in Europe!
The act of repeating, or doing things in iterations, is something that is very powerful. This has always been a kind of mantra to me when I want to achieve something. Whether I'm digging a deep hole prospecting for gold or crossing continents with my own legs.
This also ties into software development. By repeating the process, and adapting it as you go, you will reach the next milestone and eventually also your final goal. By splitting a problem into smaller pieces and acting upon them, the problem will suddenly feel much more doable.
The act of finalizing things is also something that I have always enjoyed. Whether I do woodworking, write software, or embark on a new adventure. By finalizing your current task, you feel the joy of having achieved what you set out to do and can better focus on what comes next.
To me, the cycling trip to South Africa became a very tangible way of realizing these two acts.
Sweden
South AfricaI like things to have a meaning, and the idea behind the name of the company is that you can achieve great things by iterating and breaking up a challenge into smaller parts. 25 kms is a nice and manageable piece of distance when you cycle. Here, it's also a metaphor for the iterative nature of software development.
The company logo was designed to be motivational. As a way of reaching your goals and reflect on your achievements. You can get valuable insights by looking in the rear-view mirror, whether you're on the road or developing software. The same goes for the logo. If you look at it upside down in a mirror (or click here), you can see that it transforms into KW52 and this made-up, yet symbolic "axiom" then follows:
In other words:
The more empowered you are,
the further you'll get!
Experience
This is a selection of recent companies and tech that I have worked with. Check LinkedIn for more.
Volvo Cars
Working in two different projects, the Car Configurator and the Fleet Portal.
Next.js
React
Node.js
GraphQL
.NET
Jest
MongoDB
Kubernetes
Elastic
Storybook
Percy
Figma
AWSLambda
GitHubActions
LaunchDarkly
Saab
Consultant at Acorn Technology
Full-Stack development within Surveillance (Public Safety & Security). Unfortunately I cannot disclose any technical details.
Telia Company
Consultant at Acorn Technology
Building customer portals for both Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) and Telia Wholesale (formerly Skanova).
TypeScript
Angular
Redux
Java
Docker
Qualisys
Developing analysis modules and booking systems for motion capture in the sciences of running, gait and equine.
TypeScript
AngularJS
PHP Node.js
Three.js MongoDB
MySQL
Bash
AWS
Heroku
Career break – Two years in the saddle
I spent two years cycling from Sweden all the way down to South Africa with many lessons learned along the way.
Nordea
Consultant at Capgemini
Initializing the work and creating a foundation for a new public bank website while sharing best practices with management.
JavaScript
Sass
E.ON
Consultant at Capgemini
Short assignment helping out finishing a modern business portal to meet quality and time requirements.
JavaScript
Backbone.js
CSS
SKF
Consultant at Capgemini
Front-End lead and Java developer building a brand new global website on top of SDL Tridion CMS, launched in 60+ markets.
JavaScript
jQuery CSS Java
Akamai