Resume

Simon Nordberg

Building products. Fractional CTO/CPO advisory.

20+ years across engineering, product, and operations. Built and scaled platform organizations, led engineering and product teams from startup to thousands of engineers, and delivered advisory engagements at Spotify, Volvo Cars, Wolters Kluwer, and ATG. Now building products at Hackerman AB and available for fractional CTO/CPO work.

Experience Overview

  • Hackerman AB
    Founder & Product Builder
  • Umain (Eidra)
    Technical Director
  • Volvo Cars
    Product Manager (contract)
  • Wolters Kluwer
    Architect (contract)
  • Spotify
    Principal / Senior Product Manager
  • ATG
    Product Manager (contract)
  • Sysarb
    Advisor (contract)
  • Gomorron Östersund
    Co-founder & Partner
  • Urb-it
    CTO / PM / Architect (contract)
  • Brightn AB
    Co-founder & CTO
  • Adeprimo
    Software Engineer & Architect
  • Ibitec
    Software Engineer & Architect
  • Roxen Internet Software
    Developer
  • Exsitec
    Technical Consultant
  • Ericsson
    Master's Thesis
  • UKD Distans
    Head Teacher
  • Utfors
    NOC Technician

Experience in Detail

Hackerman AB

Founder & Product Builder

Dec 2016 - Present | Gothenburg, Remote

Building products across software, infrastructure, and finance. Available for fractional CTO/CPO advisory work with companies navigating engineering, product, and platform scaling challenges.

Previously delivered engagements including Spotify, Volvo Cars, Wolters Kluwer, ATG, Sysarb, and Urb-it.

Umain (Eidra)

Technical Director

May 2025 - Mar 2026 | Gothenburg, Stockholm

Co-built Umain's Gothenburg engineering practice from zero to five engineers.

Led architecture and engineering on the Marathon (Bungie) alternate reality game (ARG), alongside Eidra sister company Kurppa Hosk.

Drove architecture and technical direction across client engagements. Scalability, reliability, infrastructure. Participated in sales and pitch work.

Tech stack: GCP, Vercel, Node.js, Elixir, Next.js

Volvo Cars

Product Manager (contract)

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 | Gothenburg, Stockholm, Remote

Led a team of eight engineers building a declarative infrastructure platform on Crossplane, enabling self-service provisioning for Volvo Cars' internal developer platform.

Participated in Platform leadership across security, compute, cloud, networking, and storage. Drove product strategy and coached leaders on product development culture for infrastructure teams.

Tech stack: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Java, .NET Core

Wolters Kluwer

Architect (contract)

Mar 2023 - Sep 2023 | Gothenburg, Remote

Held interim responsibility across CTO, architecture, and operations while permanent leadership was being recruited. Embedded in teams across all three areas.

Led technology strategy and architecture governance for the next-generation web platform, replacing legacy desktop software for tax and accounting professionals.

Created an incident management process that cut response times and resolved long-standing reliability issues. Restored confidence with the organization and customers.

Tech stack: Azure, C#, .NET Core

Spotify

Principal Product Manager

Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 | Gothenburg, Stockholm, Remote

Led the Cloud Storage Product Area. Storage, databases, and caching products serving all of Spotify R&D. Managed four product managers balancing reliability, performance, and cost.

Led Fleet Management, enabling centralized rollout of infrastructure changes across services without involving owning teams.

Served as strategy lead for company-wide platform productivity and business continuity initiatives.

Tech stack: GCP, AWS, Bigtable, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Java, Python, Kubernetes

Spotify

Senior Product Manager

May 2019 - Jan 2022 | Gothenburg, Stockholm, Remote

Managed storage and database platform teams. Drove developer productivity, reliability, performance, and cost improvements.

Contributed to declarative infrastructure provisioning and backend service frameworks improving developer experience.

Tech stack: GCP, AWS, Bigtable, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Java, Python, Kubernetes

ATG

Product Manager (contract)

Mar 2018 - Apr 2019 | Stockholm

Led productization of cloud and messaging services in the central platform organization. Product strategy, roadmap, compliance, and quality assurance.

Established AWS governance. SSO, billing, logging, policy enforcement, auditing, and connectivity.

Designed and developed an infrastructure-as-code framework for self-service provisioning and messaging configuration.

Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Networking, Solace (Appliance & VMR), Python, Golang, SAN

Sysarb

Advisor (contract)

Feb 2018 - Jun 2019 | Arboga, Stockholm, Remote

Advised the CTO/CPO and management team on technology strategy and organization for a pay equity SaaS platform.

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, .NET

Urb-it

CTO / PM / Architect (contract)

Jun 2015 - Jun 2017 | Stockholm

Joined as the first iOS engineer, building three native apps for consumers, merchants, and couriers. Progressed to product manager, then interim CTO over two years as the company scaled.

As CTO, led an engineering organization of around 30 people across in-house teams and an external partner firm. Served on the executive team driving product and company strategy.

Tech stack: iOS, Android, JavaScript, .NET, AWS, Azure

Gomorron Östersund

Co-founder & Partner

Jan 2017 - Nov 2020 | Östersund, Remote

Co-founded a coworking space for freelancers and entrepreneurs in Östersund. Built it from scratch into a sustainable business. Later sold shares to active members when relocating, prioritizing long-term community ownership over personal equity.

Brightn AB

Co-founder & CTO

Jun 2014 - Apr 2019 | Örebro, Östersund, Remote

Co-founded and built a two-sided marketplace connecting retailers to consumers on deals and events. iOS, Android, and web. Launched with paying B2B customers, pivoted several times before shutting down.

Tech stack: Objective-C, Swift, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Machine Learning, AWS

Adeprimo

Software Engineer & Architect

Nov 2008 - Jun 2014 | Östersund

Led software engineering on mktwebb, a shared web publishing platform serving around 47 Swedish newspaper titles. Core contributor to Tulo, a subscription and paywall platform for media publishers.

Established development and architectural best practices. Team lead and agile advocate during methodology transition.

Tech stack: Java, Objective-C, Scala, Python, Ruby, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, JavaScript, Linux, AWS

Ibitec

Software Engineer & Architect

Nov 2007 - Nov 2008 | Linköping, Stockholm

Enterprise Java applications on JBoss and WebSphere for government, military, and insurance clients.

Established architectural guidelines and instructed Sun Microsystems Enterprise Java courses.

Tech stack: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, JavaEE, WebSphere, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, Scrum, RUP

Roxen Internet Software

Developer

Aug 2006 - Nov 2007 | Linköping

Developed features for Roxen Editorial Portal, a web-based multichannel publishing tool for the media industry.

Tech stack: Pike, C, Linux, MySQL, XSLT, Scrum

Exsitec

Technical Consultant

May 2004 - Aug 2006 | Linköping, Stockholm

Designed and implemented custom solutions for Movex ERP. Integrations through to full application suites.

Developed deep IBM iSeries expertise through delivery and training.

Tech stack: Java, JavaScript, iSeries, OS/400, DB2, Movex

Ericsson

Master's Thesis

May 2003 - Sep 2003 | Stockholm

Designed and implemented a 3G IPv6 node emulator for end-to-end terminal testing. Kernel and IPv6 stack modifications.

Thesis: 3G IPv6 Node Emulator

Tech stack: C, C++, Linux, FreeBSD

UKD Distans

Head Teacher (part-time)

Dec 1999 - Mar 2003 | Umeå, Malung

Taught high school students programming in C, C++, SQL, and Visual Basic.

Tech stack: C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic

Utfors

NOC Technician (part-time)

May 2000 - Aug 2002 | Uppsala, Stockholm

Managed core and customer networks. Configuration, monitoring, and operations.

Tech stack: Solaris, Linux, Cisco, Juniper