Erik Westrup

High/low Level Developer | Backend | Engineering Manager & Agile Team Lead | Problem solver Experienced Backend Developer and Engineering Manager with the eager of making the world a better place. Are you? Then let's join arms! I am a problem-solving-oriented person who loves challenges. From my education, work at huge players like Axis Communications, small and fast IT-startups like Dubsmash, to academic industry-changing companies like ResearchGate, research driven projects at Lund University, and spare time interests I have gathered a broad base of knowledge and has become an experienced Software Engineer and Engineering Manager, always eager to master new technologies and social skills. I've been working with technologies including Java, C, Python, Go, Linux/BSD platform and open source projects, but I am adept and interested in many others. I spend my free time to hack on all sorts of projects; contributing with patches, bug reports and discussions. I'm interested in the Agile process of software development more specifically in that a team can change the way they work to achieve their goals. I've been a Scrum/Kanban master for teams involving different disciplines like firmware developers, web developers and QA testers. From there on I've worked as Engineering Manager to learn more about especially personal development coaching, company , recruitment, and organization and goal setting (OKRs). During my studies I've gained many social & leadership skills during my spare time from being a club foreman, leader for a web development team at the Computer Science Association in Lund, international mentor which already has me in my international career in understanding and working across cultures. I've learned how to engage people to volunteer work, educate and instruct both technical matters and social skills, taking responsibility under security safety laws. As a person I love challenges and I'm very passionate and engaged in them, likes to take initiative, being creative and solution oriented and share my learnings. My social skills gained from being in leader positions in student associations makes it easy to work with me. I like to really dig down in specific problems and technologies but I'm still always eager to explore new fields to gain more experience which means that I have both specific as well as generic competences. Connect with me to learn more!