Emil Pirfält
Technical Lead at MATCHi
Sweden
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Top SchoolEmil Pirfält is a Technical Lead based in Sweden with 13 years of hands-on experience building platform and payment integrations across frontend, backend, CI/CD and cloud environments. He currently leads the platform team at MATCHi, having quickly progressed from developer to technical lead since joining in 2022. His background includes integration specialist roles in payments at Bambora and Samport, giving him deep practical knowledge of transactional systems and error-resilient workflows. Emil is a pragmatic full-stack engineer who still enjoys diving into Node.js internals—he has contributed bug fixes to the popular learnyounode workshop, improving error handling and async I/O exercises. Colleagues rely on him to bridge operational concerns with developer experience, delivering reliable systems that are easier to maintain. He combines formal studies in computer science and systems analysis with a steady track record of shipping production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyComputer Systems Analysis, Computer Systems Analysis at Luleå University of Technology
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Github Skills (17)
asynchronous10
javascript10
async10
error-handling10
nodejs10
filesystem9
file-operations9
fileio9
autocode8
coder8
learnr8
codea8
hopper8
data-structures6
dictionary6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
workshopper/learnyounode
Apr 2014 - Nov 2014
Learn You The Node.js For Much Win! An intro to Node.js via a set of self-guided workshops.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Emil contributed to the `learnyounode` repository by fixing bugs related to error handling and JSON formatting within the Node.js exercises. They addressed issues in exercises involving HTTP servers, file operations, and asynchronous I/O, specifically focusing on error propagation. The user made improvements by refining error messages and ensuring correct argument passing in error handling functions. Their work primarily involved modifying JavaScript files related to Node.js module exercises.
nodejsworkshoppernodeschool
pirfalt/pirfalt.github.io
May 2017 - Nov 2020
Personal website.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 6 months
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