About

Hi, I'm Emil Privér, a software engineer from Göteborg, Sweden. Below is a rough chronology — personal moments, school, and jobs — with more detail on my CV.

Full CV with roles, dates, and links.

Timeline

March 18, 1999

Born

Born in Borås, Sweden.

Summer 2018

High school — System Developer track

Varberg

Studied to become a system engineer; learned most by researching and shipping assignments my own way.

2018

Started programming

Got curious about how things worked behind websites and games — that curiosity never really stopped.

Laptop with code on screen and a small dog nearby — Still the same setup some evenings.

Autumn 2018 - Spring 2019

Web developer

Team Property, Stockholm

First industry role: built and maintained the company site and helped with social channels.

Spring 2019 — August 2022

Software engineer

Rivercode, Borås

Backend for e-commerce: CMS integrations and Elasticsearch product search.
Shipped sites such as morrisstockholm.com, axelarigato.com, and vikingfootwear.com.
Built a skin-type-based recommendation system for Bangerhead.

rivercode.se

Two colleagues at a wooden workbench with a lit-up device; one wears a Rivercode shirt

Summer 2021

Met my fiancée

An evening in late July in Gothenburg, Sweden, I met Emma for the first time. We took a two-hour walk and bonded instantly.

Couple posing playfully on a lawn by a lake on a bright day

August 2022 — March 2024

Software engineer

Zimpler, Göteborg

Bank integrations and internal tooling.
Data pipeline into a warehouse for a more data-driven org.
Scalable payout system handling on the order of thousands of transactions per second.

zimpler.com