UX Engineer in Sweden
I'm an enthusiastic engineer who enjoys the intersection between tech, design, product, organisational leadership, strategy and society. I'm a tech industry researcher at The Pragmatic Engineer, an alumni of the M.Sc program in Interaction Technology and Design and of Spotify. I'm inactive on most places as @hejelin or @hejelinnilsson. I've got a linktree, a small adventure van, and I have, at times, written things on Medium.
technical product management, improving developer experience and platform engineering, developing (mobile) design systems or server-driven features, tech leadership and staff/+ engineering, or speaking engagements.
I love feedback, and in this talk I presented my feedback formula (based on textbook definitions of feedback), talk about how to get better at giving and asking for feedback, and also what to do with the feedback you do get. The talk is 38 mins long. Feedback.
Me and my teammate Raul Herbster talked about our experience working on a new experimentation platform for Spotify, and shared learning and gotchas from collaborating across platforms team (backend, mobile, web and data). The talk is 10 mins long.
The Hub Framework was a JSON-based Backend-driven UI framework developed at Spotify, and was at one point hailed as The One Framework to Solve Everything. Spoiler alert - It didn't. It's a cautionary tale of what can go wrong when building cross-platform systems without close collaboration, ignoring separation of concerns, and trying to solve too many problems at once. The talk is 39 mins long.
In 2017, we modularized the Android codebase at Spotify, going from a monolithic .app module to hundreds of modules in a matter of months - a huge project that involved 50+ teams and 100+ mobile engineers. I talked about that journey, and what we learned about modularization, best practices, tech debt and perseverence along the way. The JFokus talk is less Android-specific than the Droidcon Berlin one. The talk is 33 mins long.
Doing research, surveys and reports that are turned into Deepdive articles for The Pragmatic Engineer - the #1 technology newsletter on Substack
Worked with mobile architecture, frameworks, platforms and design systems for feature development in various teams at Spotify.