Chief Technology Officer

• May 2023 - Present

Engineering Product Area Lead – Senior Engineering Manager

• Oct 2020 - May 2023

- Led the Content Integrity Engineering organisation in building Spotify's content moderation platform. - Hired and grew a team of 6 Engineering Managers and 2 Staff Engineers, ultimately responsible for over 50 engineers across the EU, UK and US. - Led the technical strategy for the architecture, integration and scaling of Spotify's content moderation capabilities with the rest of Spotify's systems enabling fast launches of new content types. - Co-organizer of Spotify's internal… Show more - Led the Content Integrity Engineering organisation in building Spotify's content moderation platform. - Hired and grew a team of 6 Engineering Managers and 2 Staff Engineers, ultimately responsible for over 50 engineers across the EU, UK and US. - Led the technical strategy for the architecture, integration and scaling of Spotify's content moderation capabilities with the rest of Spotify's systems enabling fast launches of new content types. - Co-organizer of Spotify's internal Engineering conference "SpEC" for 2 years. - Contributed to the engineering due diligence for Spotify's 2022 acquisition of Kinzen. Show less - Led the Content Integrity Engineering organisation in building Spotify's content moderation platform. - Hired and grew a team of 6 Engineering Managers and 2 Staff Engineers, ultimately responsible for over 50 engineers across the EU, UK and US. - Led the technical strategy for the architecture, integration and scaling of Spotify's content moderation capabilities with the rest of Spotify's systems enabling fast launches of new content types. - Co-organizer of Spotify's internal… Show more - Led the Content Integrity Engineering organisation in building Spotify's content moderation platform. - Hired and grew a team of 6 Engineering Managers and 2 Staff Engineers, ultimately responsible for over 50 engineers across the EU, UK and US. - Led the technical strategy for the architecture, integration and scaling of Spotify's content moderation capabilities with the rest of Spotify's systems enabling fast launches of new content types. - Co-organizer of Spotify's internal Engineering conference "SpEC" for 2 years. - Contributed to the engineering due diligence for Spotify's 2022 acquisition of Kinzen. Show less

Engineering Manager

• Jan 2018 - Sep 2020

- Engineering Manager for (periodically) 2 teams at a time (11 direct reports at peak). - Responsible for personal development, salary, hiring manager interviews, part of the domain’s engineering leadership team and coaching of new managers. - I lead the architecture and development of a custom high security infrastructure in AWS to let customers connect their Gmail inbox to parse emails for package tracking numbers and as well as the integration to the shipping companies to get the live… Show more - Engineering Manager for (periodically) 2 teams at a time (11 direct reports at peak). - Responsible for personal development, salary, hiring manager interviews, part of the domain’s engineering leadership team and coaching of new managers. - I lead the architecture and development of a custom high security infrastructure in AWS to let customers connect their Gmail inbox to parse emails for package tracking numbers and as well as the integration to the shipping companies to get the live tracking data. Tech stack: React/React native, Node.js, various AWS services. I work closely with the engineers, operational staff, partners and other key stakeholders internally and externally to Klarna. - Core-organizer of Klarna's internal Tech and Product conference "The KonferenSE". I organized this event for 5 years in a row as one of the core group of 3 people. Responsible for venue-booking, branding and logistics in the week of the event as well as content curation. Oversaw together with the other 2 the quality of the content and speaker mentoring. Managed in total a group of 10 organizers, 20 mentors and 30 speakers. Responsible also for the budget for the 2019 event with 1000 attendees. See video clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D8A-rG06bk

Software Engineer

• Apr 2015 - Dec 2017

- Worked in 2 teams: First with Klarna’s Merchant Portal with a React.js frontend and a Clojure backend. After that with the Order Management APIs towards which all of Klarna’s merchants integrate. Written in Java, deployed on AWS. AAA-SLA requirements. - Conducting tech interviews. - Core-Organiser of Klarna’s internal tech conference "The KonferenSE".

Lecturer

• Mar 2013 - Jul 2015

Elective course: "Advanced Programming of Web-Projects" Elective course: "Advanced Programming of Web-Projects"

Web Developer

• Nov 2012 - Mar 2015

- Development for the Checkout & Payment. Integration of different payment APIs and relaunch of the checkout. - Also responsible for the relaunch of limango-outlet.de / .nl / .pl Restructuring of the product backend system to use ElasticSearch. - Development for the Checkout & Payment. Integration of different payment APIs and relaunch of the checkout. - Also responsible for the relaunch of limango-outlet.de / .nl / .pl Restructuring of the product backend system to use ElasticSearch.

Web Developer

• Jan 2012 - Oct 2012

Development of internal Software and Websites Development of internal Software and Websites

Paramedic

• Nov 2005 - Aug 2006

Worked as a paramedic (german: Rettungsdiensthelfer) during the German Civillian Service Worked as a paramedic (german: Rettungsdiensthelfer) during the German Civillian Service