Robin Nilsson Robin Nilsson
LIGHT

Robin
Nilsson.

I build fault-tolerant software.

Senior Software Engineer  ·  Boise, ID
Role Senior Software Engineer
Alaska Airlines
Also   Trefika LLC
Consulting & product
Focus Distributed systems
Fault tolerance
Status Available for work
through Trefika LLC
02 / About

I build software
for systems that
have to keep working.

I'm a curious engineer and a careful problem-solver. I take pride in software that holds up under load, fails gracefully, and behaves the way it says it will. I sleep well at night because the things I ship do their job — and that, to me, is the whole point.

03 / Experience

A working history.

  1. 2026 — Present
    Senior Software Engineer Trefika LLC
    Boise, ID
    Co-founded studio building mobile applications, SaaS products, and rapid prototypes for clients and ourselves.
  2. 2024 — Present
    Senior Software Engineer Alaska Airlines
    Boise, ID
    Distributed systems and backend platforms at airline scale. Fault tolerance, observability, and service reliability.
  3. 2023 — 2024 1 yr
    Contracting Software Engineer Self-employed
    Boise, ID
    Architected a Case Management product for a leading Scandinavian contact-center platform. Rebuilt a Dialogflow-based voice bot for a taxi operator — cut manual booking workload by half.
  4. 2021 — 2023 2 yrs
    Full-stack Developer Bright Energy
    Stockholm, SE
    Scaled the platform from thousands to millions of users across Europe. Authored an auth framework supporting 20+ identity providers, cut infrastructure cost ~95% via an AWS migration, and mentored a team of four into Go.
  5. 2020 — 2021 2 yrs
    Senior Software Developer Mitel
    Stockholm, SE
    Led development of a new cloud contact-center application — won an internal award for best pre-product presentation. Prototyped real-time keyword detection for video meetings.
  6. 2016 — 2020 4 yrs
    Senior Applications Developer Mitel
    Stockholm, SE
    Architecture lead across MiCC Enterprise and CloudLink. Joint-venture work with Amazon's R&D team on the alpha of AWS Chime. Drove the migration from Windows clients to web.
  7. 2013 — 2016 3 yrs
    Product Specialist Mitel
    Stockholm, SE
    Pre-sales engineering and enterprise installations across high-security environments. Authored best-practice guidelines and taught classroom training to external engineers.
04 / Contact

Get in touch.

I work full-time at Alaska Airlines. For consulting and product work, that happens at Trefika, a small studio I co-founded. Otherwise — say hello.