Markus Amalthea Magnuson Email & Phone Number

Brussels, BE

Development and maintenance of the Nick Bostrom digital estate.

Belgium

Founded the Altruistic Agency that provides free tech expertise for effective altruists.

Founded the company Polyscopic Works that provides products and services in web, software, media, art, culture, and publishing.

Founded The Sci-Fi Agenda, an online publication specialising in science fiction film and television.

Founded Sibyl Publishing that issues digital editions of important works from history through original restoration and editing.

Development and maintenance of the Nick Bostrom digital estate.

Stockholm Metropolitan Area

I curated the short film programme at the genre film festival Monsters of Film.

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

I helped run the press desk at IFFR, managing contacts between filmmakers and the press, booking interviews, supporting accredited journalists, etc.

Stockholm Metropolitan Area

I did regular freelance work in web development and tech support for the Global Challenges Foundation whose goal is to increase awareness of global catastrophic risks while searching for the governance that can decrease them.

Web development for the startup Labelcaster which lets anyone start and run a music label. The tech stack included various services in JavaScript/Node and Go, front-ends in React, and PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases. I helped speed up development by improving dev ops and general infrastructure by consolidating codebases, setting up server provisioning via.

Full-stack web development for the startup Spotterfish which provides virtual, realtime screening rooms for film post-production teams. I was brought in to help bring the product from testing to a commercial stage by improving all parts of the service. The tech stack included a back-end in Firebase and various other GCP services, a front-end in.

Stockholm Metropolitan Area

I helped build websites and services for various customers, mostly focusing on back-end development in Python/Django. Clients included Universal Music Group where I spent a lot of effort improving the data pipeline and payment side of their digital music distribution service Spinnup, EQT Ventures where I helped rebuild various parts of their website and.

Stockholm Metropolitan Area

I was a Teaching Assistant in the courses "Fundamentals of Computer Science" and "Fundamentals of Programming" for students in the Engineering Physics and Aerospace Engineering programmes.

Stockholm Metropolitan Area

Throughout the years I've contributed to the film programme and catalogue on many occasions, in the form of interviews, film reviews, director biographies, and reporting.

Stockholm Metropolitan Area

I was the tech lead and main developer in the marketing department where I wrote new features for – as well as optimised and maintained – the website, e-commerce platform, marketing automation system, and general web infrastructure. I helped migrate the previous main website from a legacy PHP/ColdFusion codebase to a modern Django implementation including.

Co-founded the film production company Nattlek ("Night Games" after the Mai Zetterling film) where I worked as a screenwriter, director, cinematographer, editor, and film score composer, mostly in stop-motion animation. We bootstrapped several films and sold our last short – a 30-minute long science fiction datam – to national television without any.

Wrote code, did QA, and localised content, for the Camino and Firefox browsers, and various Mozilla Europe projects. Go to the URL "about:credits" in Firefox you'll find my name, also etched into a monument at the Mozilla HQ in San Francisco.

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering Physics

Activities and Societies: Member of the student choir Osqstämman where I also served on the board for several semesters. Choir member of.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Cinema Studies, A

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Cinema Studies, A

Art History

Activities and Societies: Member of the board of the Art History Student Council, and Student ombudsman for equality and work environment

Gender Studies

Cultural Entrepreneurship

Short Film Production