Why We Still Write Erlang in 2026
Karin Hjalmarsson on the architectural reasons we continue to choose Erlang/OTP for systems that must run for decades without restart.
Read article →Founded 1987
A privately-held Swedish AB with three founding partners still active in the firm today.
412 Engineers
Across our Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö offices. Average tenure of 9.4 years.
Long Engagements
Our average client relationship is 14 years. Our oldest production system has run continuously since 1991.
What We Do
Eight practice areas, one engineering culture
Financial Platforms
Settlement engines, custodial ledgers, and treasury systems for Nordic and European banks. Our oldest core banking installation has been in continuous service since 1991.
Enterprise Systems
Mission-critical software for institutions where downtime is not an acceptable outcome. Erlang and OTP-based architectures with measured availability above 99.998%.
Sovereign Cloud
Private cloud infrastructure built on hardened Linux and OpenBSD, designed in collaboration with EU government agencies. EU data residency by construction.
Cyber Security
24/7 monitoring, incident response, and security engineering. ISO 27001 certified since 2009. Six of our engineers serve on European cybersecurity standards committees.
From the Workshop
Inside the Stockholm office
Engineering Floor · Strandvägen
Code Review Session
Hardware Lab
About the Firm
A Quiet Swedish Engineering Practice
Emirates PD AB was founded in Stockholm in April 1987 by three engineers — Magnus Åberg, Elsa Lindqvist, and Johan Bergström — who had previously worked together at Ericsson on the AXE telephone exchange. They wanted to apply the same engineering discipline they had learned in telecoms to the emerging field of enterprise software.
Today the firm has 412 employees across three Swedish cities. We remain privately held, with no outside investors. Decisions are made by a partnership of twelve, and we've never sought venture capital, gone public, or been acquired.
We work in Erlang, Rust, OCaml, and Python. We maintain Fortran and COBOL systems older than most of our junior engineers. We measure ourselves not by features shipped but by uptime and the longevity of the systems we leave behind.
Read MoreStockholm Office · Strandvägen 7
Certifications & Compliance
ISO 27001
Information Security
ISO 9001
Quality Management
SOC 2 Type II
Trust Services
GDPR
EU Data Protection
PCI DSS
Level 1 Service Provider
CSA STAR
Cloud Security Alliance
Selected Clients
A representative selection of organisations who have engaged us
NORDEA
SEB
RIKSBANK
ERICSSON
VOLVO
STENA
SCANIA
SAS
SKANSKA
VATTENFALL
SKF
ATLAS COPCO
38
Years in Business
412
Employees
99.998%
Production Uptime
14 yrs
Avg. Client Tenure
Recent News
Updates from the firm
News & Announcements
14 Apr 2026
Argent Ledger reaches three years in production. Our settlement system for a Nordic central bank has now processed more than SEK 6 trillion in transactions with no unscheduled outages since deployment in April 2023.
02 Mar 2026
Spring 2026 graduate intake confirmed. Eleven engineering graduates have accepted offers to join the firm in August. Applications for the autumn intake open 1 June.
19 Feb 2026
New practice area: Quantum & Post-Quantum Cryptography. Following twelve months of research, we have formally established a ninth practice area led by Dr. Astrid Svensson and Dr. Henrik Engström.
11 Jan 2026
Lighthouse Atlas extended to Port of Helsinki. Our maritime logistics platform, originally built for the Port of Gothenburg in 2023, now manages vessel routing for a second Baltic harbour authority.
08 Dec 2025
2025 Annual Report published. Revenue of SEK 1.42 billion (+8.3% YoY), employee headcount up by 24, and four new long-term client engagements. Download PDF.
Insights
Selected writing from our engineers
Migrating a 1991 Banking Core to Modern Hardware
Lars Dahlgren documents a four-year project to lift a venerable PL/I codebase onto contemporary infrastructure with zero downtime.
Read article →What 38 Years of Long Engagements Teaches You
Senior partner Anna Lundgren reflects on the firm's anniversary and the engineering culture that has kept clients returning for decades.
Read article →What Our Clients Say
References available on written request
We have worked with Emirates PD on every major IT project our institution has undertaken since 2003. Their engineering quality is consistently excellent, their delivery dates are met without exception, and their long-term thinking aligns precisely with how we operate.
— CIO, Nordic Sovereign Investment Fund
In an industry obsessed with speed, Emirates PD remains a firm that takes the time to understand your business before writing a single line of code. The result is software that works correctly the first time and continues to work correctly for years afterwards.
— CTO, Private Bank, Geneva
We engaged Emirates PD in 1994 to build our settlement engine. Three Royal Audit reviews and three decades later, we have never had reason to question that decision.
— Managing Director, Stockholm Banking House
Get in Touch
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If you would like to discuss a project, request references, or arrange a visit to our Stockholm office, we would be glad to hear from you.
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