Jimmy Jardland
Engineering Manager
About me
I developed my passion for programming early in life, seeing my father tinkering with home automation long before the smart home was a thing. I've since developed into a leader driven by providing software developers and engineers with the best possible conditions to excel.
I thrive seeing people around me grow, and enable this by coaching, providing clear goals and structures. Never without losing my integrity, my willingness to stand up for what I believe in and making tough decisions when needed.
Skills
Management
Agile Methodologies
Project Management
Team Leadership
Sales
Coaching
Mentorship
DevOps
Solution Architecture
Docker
Node.js
JavaScript
ASP.NET
CI/CD
Docker Swarm
PostgreSQL
Travis
Coaching
TypeScript
Drone
C#
Organization development
AWS
Engineering management
Git
Academic Background
DEVELOPMENT .NET
2013-2015
IT
2010-2013
Employment history
Engineering Manager
🇨🇭 May 2022 - Mars 2023
My role includes engineering management for distributed teams, department strategy, recruiting, career framework and leading horizontal projects focused on engineering foundations and frameworks.
Moved to Switzerland
🇨🇭 Nov 2021
Relocation from Stockholm, Sweden to Zürich, Switzerland
Engineering Manager
🇸🇪 May 2021 - Nov 2021
Mentimeter's vision is to transform presentations and meetings into fun and interactive experiences by making it easy to listen and to be heard. We believe in giving everyone a voice, in every meeting and presentation. We are building a modern, friendly, and diverse product-first tech company based in Stockholm.
I was a part of the newly formed Engineering Management leadership, my primary role was to manage engineers in our product department and represent the engineering ways of working and culture. I had responsibilities in organization and roles, budget and analysis, recruitment, branding, crafts, engineering culture, trainee and internship programs, product culture, developer experience, developer processes, education and learning, collaboration.
Head of Development & Developer
🇸🇪 May 2017 - May 2021
My role included engineering management, department strategy, training and skills development, recruitment, account management, budgeting, processes, and ways of working. I was part of the management team, business forum, and sales team.
In our teams, I acted as team lead, tech lead, DevOps engineer, and developer. Worked mainly with building new platforms and infrastructures with the latest technologies, for clients such as Swedish mobile telecommunications company Vimla and the Swedish Public Employment Service.
Developer
🇸🇪 2014-2017
Tech lead and developer. Worked mainly with intranets and content management for clients such as Sandvik and MTR.
Pokechecked is my hobby project, it is built to make Europeans more interested in the NHL. Since the NHL games are played at night time in Europe it is very hard to follow. By making spoiler-free highlights I allow users to see 5 or 10 minutes highlights of the game but without getting spoiled how the game will end.
In the app, you can see the highlights, stars, and events of the game. You can also see upcoming games in your local time and get an overview of the standings.
Selected projects
Team Lead
April - July 2020
An open sourced lab project together with RISE that explored how governmental institutions could support external service providers in a result-oriented and safe way. The lab project helps citizens determine their mental wellbeing needs, matches them with relevant digital services, measures the effectiveness of the services and compensates service providers according to their results.
Node.js
Docker
ReasonML
ReasonReact
PostgresSQL
GraphQL
Team Lead
Augusti - December 2019
A digital platform for logistics and coordination of autonomous medical transports by drones to rural areas. The platform supports transport, bookings and oversight. It also has an API communicating with the transportation drones to control pick-up, flight route and drop-off.
My role in this project was to set up the platform architecture and train our agile coach in how to lead a team.
Node.JS
ELK
React
PostgreSQL
Docker
Project lead & Developer
June 2017 – May 2020
Mapping competence of asylum seekers and preparing them for the Swedish job market.
Node.js
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
React
Vue
Docker Swarm
ELK
Developer & DevOps engineer
May 2017 - September 2019
Vimla is a digital phone operator fighter brand, awarded best phone operator three years in a row. We built for example their website, mobile app and API.
Node.js
Docker Swarm
ELK
ReactNative
React
Drone
AWS
Gig
Team Lead
June 2018 - January 2019
An open sourced lab project together with Swedish Public Employment Service where we explored if a digital platform with gig-jobs targeted at asylum seekers could facilitate establishment and integration
Node.js
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
React
Docker Swarm
ELK
Tech lead
January 2015 – May 2017
Sandvik is a high-technology engineering group that has about 43,000 employees and sales in more than 150 countries.
We merged Sandvik's 112 intranets in the organization to create one shared global intranet.