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Kim Burgestrand

About Me

I’m a self-taught Swedish developer and grew up on an island named Resarö in the Stockholm archipelago. My history includes a short visit to Jönköping University where I met my partner Elin, a pit stop at Gothenburg University, and then roughly five years as a full-stack developer at digital agency called Elabs#1.

In 2016, Elin and I moved to Stockholm to get closer to family. For a while we lived happily out in the woods of Blackeberg, while I ran a startup as tech lead in the consumer mobile space.

Late 2018 my son was born, and in the following summer we packed our things and moved out into the archipelago, to a small ex-military island known Rindö. Things were great, and then the pandemic hit.

Long story short, since 2020 I am a co-founder & partner of a small rebooted digital agency named Varvet. We spend our time building beautiful and useful digital services, like websites and apps. Long-lasting relationships and problem-solving is our forte.

In 2021 my daughter was born.

When I do have some free time I enjoy far too many things to list, and the hobbies keep piling up. I'm a maker of things, karate instructor, juggler, computer gamer, snowboarder, and community builder. I built a 3D printer, a CNC mill, an FPV freestyle drone. I maintain a popular software package (over 75 million downloads), and I help run a fritidsgård.

In 2024 I thought Rindö should have a public midsummer festival, so I hosted one with two friends and 300+ people showed up. Absolutely amazing. We'll do it again in 2025.

Having said all of that, my family is the absolutely most important thing to me. I'm a life partner, and a dad.