Resume

Simon Nordberg

Expert generalist: engineering, product, and operations

Expert generalist with 20+ years building products from engineering and product perspectives. I have scaled platform organizations at Spotify, operated as CTO at Urb-it, and co-founded multiple companies. I stay close to technical decisions, favor incremental improvement over rewrites, and focus on how vision, strategy, execution, and people connect.

Experience Overview

  • Umain
    Technical Director
  • Volvo Cars
    Product Manager (contract)
  • Wolters Kluwer
    Architect (contract)
  • Spotify
    Principal / Senior Product Manager
  • ATG
    Product Manager (contract)
  • Sysarb
    Advisor (contract)
  • Urb-it
    CTO / PM / Architect (contract)
  • 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

Entrepreneurship

  • Hackerman AB
    Founder
  • Gomorron Ostersund
    Co-founder & Partner
  • Brightn AB
    Co-founder & CTO

Experience in Detail

Umain

Technical Director

May 2025 - Present | Gothenburg, Stockholm

Establishing Umain's Gothenburg office from scratch. Recruiting and building the engineering team while leading technical direction on client engagements.

Providing cloud infrastructure architecture and technical leadership across client projects in manufacturing and digital products.

Tech stack: GCP, Next.js, Golang

Volvo Cars

Product Manager (contract)

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 | Gothenburg, Stockholm, Remote

Led a team building a declarative infrastructure platform, enabling a unified approach to managing platform resources and improving developer experience.

Drove product strategy for a new department and coached platform 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

Supported leadership across CTO, Architecture, and Operations domains.

Led technology strategy, organization design, and architecture governance for a next-generation web platform.

Improved reliability, performance, observability, and incident management.

Tech stack: Azure, C#, .NET Core

Spotify

Principal Product Manager

Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 | New York, Stockholm, Remote

Led the Cloud Storage Product Area, managing storage and database products enabling Spotify R&D to run stateful workloads at scale.

Managed a global team of senior product managers balancing reliability, performance, and cost.

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 | New York, Stockholm, Remote

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

Contributed to configuration management and backend service foundation teams improving backend 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 to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.

Defined product strategy, roadmap, compliance, and quality assurance.

Established AWS governance with SSO, billing, logging, policy enforcement, auditing, and VPN 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 on product and technology strategy as part of the management team, supporting Sysarb's mission around workplace equality.

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, .NET

Urb-it

CTO (contract)

Jan 2017 - Jun 2017 | Stockholm

Led engineering, product management, UX, system integration, and test teams.

Served on the executive team, driving product and company strategy.

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

Urb-it

Product Manager (contract)

May 2016 - Jan 2017 | Stockholm

Managed a suite of four native mobile apps for consumers, merchants, and couriers.

Led one co-located and one distributed development team across two continents.

Tech stack: iOS, Android, Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin

Urb-it

Software Engineer & Architect (contract)

Jun 2015 - May 2016 | Stockholm

Designed and developed three iOS apps for customers, merchants, and couriers, focused on scalability and user experience.

Tech stack: Objective-C, Swift, Storyboard, MVVM

Adeprimo

Software Engineer & Architect

Nov 2008 - Jun 2014 | Ostersund

Established and evolved development and architectural best practices across internal and client projects.

Led software engineering efforts across media, e-commerce, and tourism; 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 | Linkoping, Stockholm

Specialized in enterprise Java applications on JBoss and WebSphere for government, military, and insurance clients.

Established architectural guidelines and instructed Sun Microsystems Enterprise Java courses (FJ-310, SL-351).

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

Roxen Internet Software

Developer

Aug 2006 - Nov 2007 | Linkoping

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 | Linkoping, Stockholm

Designed and implemented custom solutions for Movex ERP, from integrations 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

Master's thesis: 3G IPv6 Node Emulator. Designed and implemented a GGSN with IPv6 support for end-to-end terminal testing, including 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 | Umea, 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, including configuration, monitoring, and operations.

Tech stack: Solaris, Linux, Cisco, Juniper

Entrepreneurship in Detail

Hackerman AB

Founder

Dec 2016 - Present | Gothenburg, Remote

Provided product and technology consulting services, with research in areas such as AI and game engines.

Gomorron Ostersund

Co-founder & Partner

Jan 2017 - Nov 2020 | Ostersund, Remote

Led product strategy and digital presence for a creative coworking space supporting startups and entrepreneurs.

Brightn AB

Co-founder & CTO

Jun 2014 - Apr 2019 | Orebro, Ostersund, Remote

Built and launched a digital platform helping retailers connect with customers while reducing dependence on printed discount flyers.

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