JAMESTECH·GOTHENBURG·WEEKLY EDITION·BACKEND·AI

01 Byline — James Hussey

Backend engineering,
AI-grade.

Senior backend developer based in Gothenburg. Building compliance AI for regulated industries. Coaching engineers through technical interviews on the side.


CurrentlyNordic Mind Labs Open toBackend / AI roles, Gothenburg

02 Recent work

2026

Nordic Mind Labs

Compliance AI platform. Scores AI systems against EU AI Act and GDPR. FastAPI + Postgres + pgvector, multilingual embeddings, OpenRouter inference.

2026

AskRef

Personal retrieval-augmented system over a 1,080-book engineering library. FAISS + Ollama + Mistral. Used daily.

2025

FT Sentiment Pipeline

End-to-end pipeline that ingests Financial Times articles, scores sentiment, and indexes for retrieval. Python + LLM scoring + structured storage.

2024

Etraveli — Java backend

Enterprise IBE integration on a 6+ year Java backend. .NET and COBOL mainframes before that.

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03 Two things I do

Software development

Backend with .NET, Python, Java. Increasingly AI-focused — RAG, LLM integration, compliance scoring. Available for senior backend or AI-engineering roles in Gothenburg.

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Interview coaching

Mock technical interviews, CV review, and career direction for developers navigating the Swedish market.

Coaching →