Overview
Senior Engineering Manager with a strong product mindset, leading customer-facing platforms at scale and turning strategy into execution that accelerates the business. I lead through engineering managers and partner closely with Product, Design, and leadership. Focused on great UX and on building healthy, high-performing engineering organizations where people thrive and deliver exceptional work. Entrepreneur; creator of https://criticalcss.com.
Work experience
Datadog — Senior Engineering Manager January 2025 - current. Remote, Sweden
Datadog — Engineering Manager 2022 - 2025. Remote, Sweden
- Leading engineering for Datadog's Logs web product and associated APIs.
- Scaled and led global teams (~20 engineers) delivering commercially significant products including Flex Logs and Log Workspaces, and stewarded compliance products such as Sensitive Data Scanner and Audit Trail to global availability.
Sonos — Software Engineering Manager November 2019 - current. Stockholm, Sweden/remote
- I managed the frontend team in Sonos SVE, a product R&D division that eventually launched the Sonos Voice Control. My responsibilities include people management and hiring, technical leadership and project management.
Snips — Frontend Engineering Manager March 2016 - November 2019. Paris, France
- Leading the frontend team and all things web related at Snips
- Turning the frontend team from group of individual hackers into a high performing collaborative team
- Modernising tech stack, moving to continuous delivery and greatly improving team velocity
- Mentoring, doing internal training and presentations, teaching best coding practices
EqualMedia Ltd — Front End Developer May 2014 - Feb 2016. London, United Kingdom
- Increasing reach by making the State.com website responsive and mobile-first
- Saving money through switching to universally rendered ReactJs with Flux — removing cost of maintaining in house framework; increasing developer efficiency
- Improving CSS quality; introducing BEM, Autoprefixer and similar CSS best practices
- Future proofing JS code base by adding babel and ES6 compilation
- Lowering Time to First render by several seconds through critical css and other Web performance techniques
- Collaborating closely with design to quickly iterate on new features
FlamingText — Front End Developer August 2011 - May 2014. Brisbane, Australia
- Using progressive enhancement to ensure accessibility for diverse global audience, while using the latest web tech.
- Prototyping and user testing new features.
Education
Master of Interaction Design University of Queensland, Australia July 2012
How to design, prototype, test and build functional, engaging and delightful user experiences.Bachelor of Cognitive Science University of Linkoping, Sweden June 2010
Knowledge of how people think, and why. Programming, Interaction design and general research skills.Skills & techniques
- Modern web tech (JS and CSS)
- React + eco system
- Web performance
- webpack
- Node, TypeScript
- MongoDB, MySQL
- GraphQL, Apollo
- Python
- Github Actions, Jenkins
- S3, CloudFront, Route53
- Stripe
- Google Analytics, Mixpanel