Oct 2024 – Jan 2025 · 3 mos · Hybrid

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Hybrid

Feb 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Amsterdam, Netherlands

Oct 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Amsterdam, Netherlands

May 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · New York & Berlin

Oct 2016 – Jun 2017 · 8 mos · New York, NY

Mar 2016 – Mar 2016 · 0 mo

Jan 2015 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New York, NY

• Roger was a voice messaging platform, featured by The New York Times, TIME, Fast Company and loved by many more.

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

• I built most of Spotify’s social features, and had a big role in the rest. These features include user profiles, the Activity view, user-to-user messages, share flow, the right-hand realtime feed, Social Chart, and the notification center.
• I’ve coordinated the technical aspects of Spotify’s full redesign, which includes speaking with the design and development teams in Stockholm as well as development teams in New York, in order to keep the release of new Spotify versions on schedule.
• As a liaison for the new markets and localization teams I’ve worked to improve localization support across the product, both by advising groups of developers and developing additional localization tools.
• During my time at Spotify I have made many contributions to Spotify’s technical platform, such as their Apollo platform (Java framework for standalone backend services) and many JavaScript libraries and utilities used for frontend work.
• I’ve worked with HR and the recruitment teams to improve the internal and external recruitment processes. As one of the first engineers in the NYC office, I helped interview and select a very large number of the initial tech team.

Dec 2009 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• I worked on designing and developing several of Spotify’s main features, such as the “Discover” and “Follow” pages.
• While the Spotify Web Player was being developed, I helped with building its internal technical platform.
• I’ve been heavily involved in the architecture of the HTML5 platform that lets Spotify deploy updates to views to clients in near realtime. This work included architecting APIs, investigating technical feasibility of different solutions, and developing stable APIs intended for use by many thousand third-party developers.
• I developed some of the first HTML5-powered views in Spotify, such as the “Radio” view.
• In spring of 2011 and also right before their f8 event I worked closely with Facebook in their Palo Alto offices to facilitate the Spotify-Facebook partnership by providing technical advice on behalf of Spotify, as well as finalizing the technical platforms on Spotify’s side that power Facebook’s metadata database, Open Graph.
• I built and set up the image delivery pipeline for Facebook and other external parties, performing on-the-fly image resizing and delivering the images via a CDN. I also architected and built open.spotify.com, the platform that delivers metadata to Facebook’s Open Graph, serving thousands of requests per second.
• For about a year I was the lead developer for Spotify’s web site, www.spotify.com, building out the
• content platform as well as working on payment and invitation systems and customer account pages.

May 2009 – Dec 2009 · 7 mos · Malmö, Sweden

• At 24HR I lead development of the most advanced features for EPiServer and Litium based CMSes. I also built a web site for online competitions where participants would upload videos from their smartphones and rate other videos for a chance to win prizes.

Jun 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · Malmö, Sweden

• I developed user interfaces that would control complex processes in various factories. For example, one project was a UI for controlling the construction of solar panels, from the raw materials, through the furnace process, and to the slicing and cleaning of the wafers. This project had several operator UIs for controlling the process (which involved hundreds of robots), as well as a mobile UI developed for Windows Phone that would allow an operator to scan materials and control the various machines that were involved in the process. The system would then track all actions and warn in case there were issues.
• I also developed web applications to track the progress of errands for teams at factories and other facilities.

Jun 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr · Ängelholm, Sweden

• During this time I was working under my own company “Mezane Web”, doing contracts for clients needing CMSes or other web applications or sites.

Jul 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos · Fuengirola, Spain

• I developed an online game which had hundreds of thousands of registered players, thousands of which would simultaneously play the game online. The goal of the game was to build an army and attack other nearby towns, owned by other players, and steal their resources while defending your own towns. Players could send an SMS to a short number to pay for additional soldiers and other benefits in the game. I had a big role in all aspects of building and maintaining the game, with some support for design and community management.
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• When I wasn’t working on the game I would help develop other games also run by the company as well as building a translation platform so that we could launch the games in more countries.

Apr 2003 – Jul 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos · Fuengirola, Spain

• At Cyber Creative I would work on adding functionality to online real estates software, as well as implementing it for customers. I also planned and architected a new iteration of the software. Besides working on the software I developed other web applications, such as a lead finder software which would automate search queries and perform analysis on web pages to find potential customers based on names and addresses.