Gabriel Petersson gabrielpetersson

timeline highlights

23yrs-now:

22-23yrs:

software engineer at midjourney
wrote the world's most performant web image grid. own loading queue, multithreaded with offscreencanvas, & smoothly renders thousands of pngs towards better resolutions as you get closer
built all internal tooling for hyperparameter tuning and dataset explorer
built pair rankings, psychometrics, tasks frontend & backend & infra
some other things ;)

20-22yrs old:

founding engineer at Dataland (YC), building a developer-first Airtable focused on performance - loading hundreds of thousands of rows in seconds
built one of the most performant web tables in production, could handle hundreds of thousands of rows + filters + sorting without losing frames
built another web table as an experiment using skia with rust bindings. chrome uses skia internally to paint content, and being written in C++, it can be compiled into webassembly. scrolls & renders rows at 60fps on an x6 cpu slowdown.
demo: https://www.loom.com/share/540ad426c22c4db192293babfc9c7fdf

19-20yrs old:

recruited to become interim CTO of Curb Food, the largest cloud kitchen in Sweden at the time with 80 employees
built a team of 7 engineers from scratch
launched our kitchen management system into production

18-19yrs old:

made a price comparison site for hand sanitizer during covid, $22'000 revenue first week
reached 5% of the swedish population in impressions, by buying all of my friends fb accounts and making viral-engineered FB posts
built & owned the video-call product troubleshooter at Mavenoid, basically a google meet but w features such as live painting through webrtc

17-18yrs old:

14-16yrs old:

bought and sold pokemon cards for 20k$+ with very high margins
ran a minecraft server with content creators, and built an open-world rpg server that i tried to monetize
made minecraft timelapses with millions of views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKozEAf0HL4
leader of a clash of clans clan that was one of the first to 100 war wins