Me

Markus Pettersson, 25 y.o. software engineer living in Gothenburg, Sweden currently working for Mullvad VPN. Raised in Arvika, where my journey of building computers and tinkering with electronics began. Computers & video games allowed me to stay connected with my friends, despite growing up in a rural area, and I quickly grew very fond of these machines. Learning to tinker with them was not only fascinating in itself, but building your own gaming computer was more cost effective than buying a pre-built dito. An important property for a kid who only recieved paychecks twice each year: birthday & christmas.

Despite being drawn to computers and video games all my childhood, I didn’t write my first line of code until I was ~17. I always thought that I wanted to get into game development, but since I never knew how to approach the subject (nor did anyone around me back then either), the inertia was simply to big to overcome on my own. I would walk this earth, oblivious about programming, until I took an introductory programming course at my gymnasium held by an old-school LISP hacker. His passion made learning fun, and I got introduced to more programming languages and computing history than I’ve ever been in a single course ever since. While the curriculum was focused on writing Basic, C and a bit of C++, he indoctrinated us to the clever humor of Douglas Adams, the sarcasm of xkcd, and programmer communities such as Hacker News. A whole new world opened up right in front of our eyes, and I’ve been hooked ever since.

Learning programming on my own has been infinitely easier ever since. I will be forever grateful for free and open source software, which allow me to keep learning about the tools I use everyday. I am certain the communities around open source projects changed my life for the better. But even more importantly, thank you Stefan.

Interests

I love programming languages and developer tools. I like teaching computers to do arduous work for me, and there are just so many interesting topics to learn while doing so.

To strengthen my knowledge about functional programming, type theory & compilers, I pursued a master’s degree in Computer Science at Chalmers. It was a great and humbling experience, and it introduced me to lots of interesting subjects and people. I’ve learnt how a compiler works, and I would even go so far as to say that I know what a monad is. I hope to use my skills to build software you can love.

Resume

You can find a PDF version of my resume 👉 here 👈

And of course, the sauce: cv.{tex, txt, git}

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