Erik Näslund

Software Engineer and Product Developer

The TL;DR of Erik #

I was born in Borlänge, Sweden 🇸🇪 in December 1983. I suppose I did what most kids do when growing up; eating yellow snow, building tree houses and such.

I moved to Malta 🇲🇹 in 2009, after having gotten a job at Uniblue Systems 💙. Uniblue was a system utilities company which no longer exists. This is where I first started using the Python 🐍 programming language.

Eventually I left Uniblue, and together with some other ex-Unibluers I became one of the five co-founders of what came to be Hotjar 🔥.

Random facts about me #

I’m a physically warm person, as in, I generate a lot of heat. Adding to that I also have a high tolerance to cold. It’s not uncommon to see me go out in flip-flops and t-shirt during the winters. It’s not as weird as you might think - the winters in Malta never get below 0°C (32°F).