Per Mellqvist

Tech and people person, ex-Funnel, on sabbatical

Per Mellqvist is an experienced startup CTO known for building tech, processes, and teams from 0 to 100 engineers.

He excels in creating disruptive products and forming skilled self-organizing teams, with a background in large-scale internet-facing systems in online gaming and advertising.

Passionate about leading world-class teams and business/product development in online gaming, online advertising, and search engines.

Proficient in Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas, Effect Mapping, Mock Press Release, and User Stories, with expertise in Scrum, Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean, BDD, and Test Driven Development methodologies.

Skilled in coaching, Strength-Based team building, Servant Leadership, Self-Organization, and managing complex systems.

Specializes in System Architecture for massively scalable internet-facing systems, Clean Code, Software Craftsmanship, and practices like unit-testing, Cucumber, test-automation, continuous integration, and static analysis.

Experienced in Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Cloud services (AWS and Google Cloud), and SaaS development.

Knowledgeable in Business Intelligence tools like Looker, Looker Studio, Tableau, BigQuery, Redshift, and dbt, as well as NoSQL databases and Big Data technologies.

Highly skilled in database design, development, and optimization of SQL on MySQL and other RDBMS, with expertise in mission-critical Linux systems.

Per studied Computer Science at Uppsala University and the University of Maryland, and has held various leadership and technical roles at companies like Funnel.io, Qwaya, Euroling, Delta Projects, bwin, Tradedoubler, Itsip, and PharmaSoft AB.