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aliases: ["David Eriksson"]
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# David Eriksson

CTO of a Stockholm-based startup building developer tooling for cloud-native applications. David joined the podcast to discuss remote-first engineering culture, asynchronous communication practices, and how his fully distributed team across five countries maintains velocity and cohesion without real-time meetings. He has strong opinions shaped by years of building distributed teams across Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

## Notes

- Highly opinionated on async-first workflows; his team runs almost entirely on written documentation and recorded video updates
- Practical and data-driven in his approach; brought concrete metrics on how async practices affected cycle time
- Admitted candidly that remote-first is not universally better, just better for certain team profiles and cultures
- The episode sparked one of the longest comment threads in the podcast community Discord

## Collaborations

- [[24q1-podcast-season-1]] — recorded episode on remote-first engineering culture
- [[topic-team-leadership]] — discussed remote team management and async workflows
- [[procedure-podcast-guest-outreach]] — introduced through the European developer tools community
