Johan Tell

About me

VP Engineering with 15+ years of full-stack background (Elixir/Rails) who scaled BoardClic’s product team from 1 → 4 devs, cut development cycle-time by 75%, and delivered SOC II readiness in 2 months. Quality minded individual who blends hands-on architecture and engineering with exec-level tech/product strategy.

Main skillset

  • Elixir/Phoenix (9 years)
  • Phoenix Live View (4 years)
  • Tailwind (4 years)
  • Ruby/Rails (13 years)
  • Javascript (17 years)

Official experience

  • VP Engineering at BoardClic

    — present

    Part of the management team, owning budget and strategic roadmap for a tech/product department of 5.

    • Supervised the product department of 5, in 3 major diciplines (tech/design/product)
    • Prepared and led SOC II Type 2 audit, which passed with zero major findings in first attempt
    • Introduced git-flow based workflows and best practices for 75% decreased cycle time & 60% failure rate
    • Led the retirement of a legacy platform reducing hosting costs by 65%
  • Tech lead at BoardClic

    —

    As the highest ranking tech representative, built and implemented the company's technical strategy, development processes and architecture.

    • Hired and built the inhouse tech team while setting up various related processes
    • Introduced a new product governance process based on shape up together with the product manager
    • Initiated and shipped a new elixir platform through a gradual migration strategy, considered world class quality by Erlang Solutions
  • Senior developer at Varvet/Universal Avenue

    —

    Most senior individual contributor in a small team building the Ruby/Rails based flagship product. Developed high quality output and acted as mentor to others.

  • Backend engineer at Fishbrain

    —

    At Fishbrain I've been working with their backend services built with Ruby on Rails.

  • Developer at Varvet

    —

    Ruby/Elixir/Javascript consultant, helping various clients with various problems. Acted interim tech lead most of the time.

  • Developer at Expressen/Bonnier news

    —

    Solo-built the API serving their mobile applications (at that time about 30% of traffic) in NodeJS.

  • Developer at Imagine it

    —

    Balanced consulting (PHP/Ruby/Javascript) and development (Ruby/Javascript) of the company's SaaS product.

Side projects

  • Owner at Mintcore

    — present
  • CTO at Portfolioz.se

    —
  • CTO at Snackler

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  • Designer & developer at Intentio

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Education

  • Karlstad university

    2010 - 2012

    Webb & Multimedia

  • Europaskolan Strängnäs

    2005 - 2008

    Företagsamhet/ekonomi

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