Kristofer Palmvik.
E-mail
kristofer@palmvik.sePhone
+46 705 886414
Postal address
Kristofer PalmvikHamngatan 16 D
582 26 Linköping
SWEDEN
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About Kristofer Palmvik
I love to develop useful and cool things with lots of data. Love to work with other people. Love to travel the world.
MSc Information Technology with specialization in Media Informatics. Professional experience of software engineering, ranging from modern frontend web to high-performance databases and cloud infrastructure.
Interested in working with product development in a web based environment. Quick to learn new skills and handle new situations. Thrives in a demanding environment together with a great team.
Aim to be a valuable part of a small company and develop a world leading product or service with high quality and professionalism.
See my professional experience and current position on LinkedIn. Let's connect!
Currently reading
I enjoy reading books about a wide range of subjects.
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert,
- Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8) by Martha Wells.
A recent favorite book is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
My notes
Observations on building software, working with teams, and exploring the world. A mix of professional thoughts and personal logs.
- 2026‑07‑01
Being where work happens helps you understand the complexity
Digital models and screens can only capture so much of the physical world. Following a parcel from the sorting terminal to a delivery locker is a powerful reminder that to improve the digital experience you must get a better understanding of the real work.
- 2026‑06‑23
Use reserved phone numbers for examples
The phone number you invented could be real. But you can use reserved example numbers so you don’t risk bothering whoever it belongs to.
- 2026‑05‑20
Did I miss something in my writing?
What if your writing came with a built-in critic? Mine does. An AI finds the seams in my thinking and publishes them right next to the text.
- 2026‑05‑16
A podcast that creates itself, in a different voice
My notes now become 5-minute podcast episodes overnight, written and voiced by a chain of AI agents. The episodes sometimes contradict my own thinking, which is exactly the point.
- 2026‑05‑04
Claude knows FFmpeg, but it has no idea where the video is
Testing an AI video editor revealed that Claude writes flawless FFmpeg commands, but made assumptions around file system paths.
- More of my notes...
Whitebrd.
A public collection of links I'm reading and referencing since 2008. Articles, tools, and resources relevant to my work and interests.
- 2026‑10‑15
Management in the Age of AI
Two things are going on in the collaboration world that are making this problem worse. First, people are becoming less collaborative. AI has this magical way of convincing everyone that they are auteurs who just need to be unblocked so they can realize their vision.blog.staysaasy.com - 2026‑10‑15
Were All Those Years of Coding Wasted?
In the end, we only need to challenge our identity if we mistake programming for writing code. AI finally allows us to separate the two. And that’s where all those years of experience transfer the best: knowing not only what to build but how to build it well.adamtornhill.substack.com - 2026‑10‑15
Departure learning reviews
Hiring someone is expensive. It usually takes at least 6-9 months for someone to learn a new job. And at least 18 months to get really good at it. That is a significant investment. A learning review for an employee departure would bring manager(s), HR representatives, hiring manager, hiring interviewers, possibly team members, and others into the same room to explore questions like thesejensrantil.github.io - 2026‑10‑13
It was NEVER about the product
I’ve managed maybe 100+ engineers over the last 20 years and I can tell you: whatever this mythical “it” is, a large fraction of the it’s it was absoTOOTely about it’s code. Who are these crazed engineers that didn’t care about the code??? And how did they get hired??? I just don’t believe them.thegoldenmule.medium.com - 2026‑10‑13
Stop Arguing With Your Coding Agent
We already know how to do this. It’s a fairly ordinary SDLC, made explicit enough that an agent doesn’t have to guess the important parts. Write down what good looks like, settle the product decisions and system choices that matter, then let one Builder build. Before believing it’s done, get a fresh reviewer to read the spec and actual diff, and have QA open the actual product and try it. Real failures go back to the same Builder. You still decide whether to ship.newsletter.engineering.land - More of my collected links...