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{% icon_section(name="pencil-square", title="About the blog") %}
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Codethoughts is a place where I share my thoughts, experiences, and learnings from my journey as a Engineering Leader, Solo Founder, and Software Engineer. I write about engineering leadership, development and architecture (both high and low-level), and personal growth. I hope you find something useful here!
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Codethoughts is a place where I share my thoughts, experiences, and learnings from my journey as a Engineering Leader, Founder, and Software Engineer. I write about engineering leadership, development and architecture (both high and low-level), and personal growth. I hope you find something useful here!
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For some of my other stuff, check out my GitHub Projects at [Tehnix](https://github.com/Tehnix) and in the
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[codetalk organization](https://github.com/codetalkio).
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I started my career as a software engineer in 2008, and have since worked in various roles in the tech industry across IC and Leadership.
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I started my career as a software engineer in 2008, and have since worked in various roles in the tech industry across IC, Leadership, and as a Founder.
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After spending time in web agencies and startups, I joined Factbird in 2018 to help reimagine how manufacturing companies could quickly get insights from production, building an end-to-end IoT product from hardware to cloud.
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After spending time in web agencies and various startups, I joined [Factbird](https://www.factbird.com) in 2018 to help reimagine how manufacturing companies could quickly get insights from production, building an end-to-end IoT product from hardware to cloud, and ending up as acting CTO.
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Right before starting codetalk I helped Famly on their mission to improve the lives of children and their families, being a key part in tripling the organization, and laying the foundation for the engineering department to grow into the amazing team they are today.
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I then joined [Famly](https://www.famly.co) as they were on the precipe of a crazy scale-up journey, and to help them on their mission to improve the lives of children and their families, being a key part in tripling the organization, and laying the foundation for the engineering department to grow into the amazing team they are today.
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At start of 2025 I decided that it was time for the next challenge, as a Founder, and started codetalk, making small indie projects and building a business around them.
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After half a year building alone, I started [Yaay](https://yaaytravel.com) in 2026 together with my co-founder, Anders, to reimagine what the next generation of travel should look like.
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If you're interested in a bit more detail about what my journey has been like, I made this timeline that includes some of the things I view as significant milestones or achievements in my career so far (read from the bottom and up).
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- [dioxus/notes/architecture/07-HOTRELOAD.md](https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/blob/9b0d380765301ae7fe337fba8438fcbb814f8748/notes/architecture/07-HOTRELOAD.md)
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<p>🤝 Started codetalk: <b>Solo Founder</b></p>
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<p>📈 <b>Scaling</b> <a href="https://yaaytravel.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yaay</a></p>
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