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Joakim Karlsson

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Head of Nordics at Couchbase
📍 Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area, Sweden

Joakim is the Head of Nordics for Couchbase, where he empowers developers in the Nordics and Baltics to build scalable, high-performance applications. With over seven years in sales leadership at firms like Nutanix and Microsoft, he focuses on B2B strategies and customer-centric digital transformation. People often describe him as positive, action-oriented, and hardworking.

He holds an MS in Computer Science from DSV/KTH Royal Institute of Technology and is certified in Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. He shows a keen interest in fostering the developer community, having organized a summer hackathon in Stockholm in partnership with AWS.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Head of Nordics
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area, Sweden
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Scalable Applications
His primary role at Couchbase is helping developers in the Nordics and Baltics build scalable, reliable, and high-performing applications.
Developer Community
Actively engages with the tech community by organizing and promoting events like hackathons to foster innovation and collaboration.
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Career

Work history

5-2022
Head of Nordics
Couchbase
2-2020 - 5-2022
Enterprise Account Executive
Nutanix
9-2017 - 1-2020
New Business Development Manager
Orange Business Services
12-2015 - 9-2017
Delivery Management Manager - Public sector at Microsoft
Microsoft
11-2013 - 12-2015
Country Business Manager at Microsoft Global Business Support
Microsoft
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Education
1995 - 1999
MS
DSV /KTH
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