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.
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
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
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
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
Advised the CTO/CPO and management team on technology strategy and organization for a pay equity SaaS platform.
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, .NET
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
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.
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
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
Developed features for Roxen Editorial Portal, a web-based multichannel publishing tool for the media industry.
Tech stack: Pike, C, Linux, MySQL, XSLT, Scrum
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
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
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