Oliver

About me

Hi! I'm glad you found me.

My name is Oliver Levay, a full-stack product engineer and builder. I've been writing code since I was 11, when my childhood friend Adam (now my Sakur co-founder) and I started making games. I never really stopped.

Since then I've built everything from games and web apps to AI and computer-vision systems for heavy industry.

What I do

I'm most at home shipping products end to end, from a blank page to something real people use. That means polished front-ends in Next.js and React, solid back-ends in Node, .NET and Python, and increasingly AI features built on top of LLMs and computer vision.

I learn fast and go deep, whether that's a new stack, a new domain, or a new language (I picked up Japanese to JLPT N3 along the way).

A builder at heart

I run my own company, Sakur AB, and I've co-founded a handful of products and communities along the way.

Studyplan grew to 2,534 sign-ups with zero marketing, purely word of mouth. With Sweden Builders I help bring together people who want to build, and our AI web-agency experiment One Click even earned us a Y Combinator interview.

Dare to be uncomfortable

I'd rather take on the awkward, hard problem than coast in a comfortable one. That's how I ended up building software for American steel mills.

At Foresight Data Machines I co-invented ScrapEye, a computer-vision system that watches cranes sort scrap steel and tells mills what they're actually getting. After that I joined an AI startup in Stockholm as a founding engineer.

Engineering background

I hold a Master of Science in Computer Engineering (Civilingenjör) from LTH, Lund University.

For my thesis I built ScrapAwear, an AR safety system for heavy industry on the Meta Quest 3. It uses ultra-wideband positioning to track moving hazards and steer a worker's attention toward them. In a user study (n=16) I compared two ways of pointing people to danger: a 3D directional arrow against a flat minimap. The arrow let people notice hazards outside their field of view about 893 ms faster, with lower perceived workload.

What I care about

Building things that actually get used. Working with people I like and trust. Sweating the details until an experience feels effortless.

If you're building something ambitious and want a hand making it real, let's talk.