Erland Ranvinge
CTO at GeoGuessr AB
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolErland Ranvinge is a Stockholm-based CTO with 13 years of hands-on experience building games and web systems, currently leading technology at GeoGuessr. He combines a practical engineering background—from low-level GPU rasterization and CUDA during his master’s work to PHP, C and Java backend systems—with a decade-plus of product-focused leadership. Known for “being in the middle of building something,” he balances rapid iteration and playful UX with robust, scalable architecture. His career weaves startup agility and production discipline, having run production teams and consulted across diverse tech stacks. Quietly, his early work on parallel rendering and realtime systems informs a pragmatic approach to performance-sensitive features in consumer products.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science and Engineering: Distributed and realtime systems., MSc Computer Science and Engineering: Distributed and realtime systems. at Linköping University
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Github Skills (10)
ajax10
visual-studio-extension10
ntlm10
javascript9
authentication6
nodejs6
encoding6
chrome2
threejs2
webgl1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erlandranvinge/webgl-quake
May 2015 - Jan 2020
Rebuilding Quake bottom-up using JavaScript
Contributions:88 commits, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
javascript
erlandranvinge/gameboy.js
May 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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