Jimmy Callin
Staff Software Engineer at Backlight
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolJimmy Callin is a Staff Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer infrastructure across media and news industries. He has driven technical strategy and cross-team delivery at Backlight (formerly ftrack), helping a film-tech platform overcome growing pains while shifting between product development and infrastructure responsibilities. At Bonnier News he led the modernization of a high-traffic news backend, moving a long-stalled monolith to a microservice architecture on Kubernetes. Early roles at Apple and Gavagai sharpened his skills in language technology, localization, and customer-driven product design—skills reflected in a Master’s in Language Technology. Known for tackling hard problems incrementally, he blends hands-on coding with process improvements and team coaching to make complex projects manageable. He brings a curious mix of NLP background and practical systems engineering that surfaces in both product and platform work.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Studies, Chinese Studies at Zhejiang UniversityChinese Studies, Chinese Studies at East China Normal UniversityChinese Studies, Chinese Studies at University of GothenburgMaster's degree Language Technology, Master's degree Language Technology at Uppsala University
Chinese, Swedish, English
Github Skills (191)
cms10
dashboard10
expressjs10
python10
json-schema10
api-client10
testing10
http10
javascriptcore10
websocket10
material-ui10
http-client10
bundler10
transpiler10
videojs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jimmycallin/rilangid
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
jimmycallin/react-hook-videojs
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
Easy React integration of Video.js using hooks.
Contributions:6 releases, 9 reviews, 81 commits in 3 years 9 months
reactvideojshookshookreact-hooks
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