Jonas Björk Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Se

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Stockholm, Se

With 430 million listens per month, 2,300 advertisers, 100,000 registered podcasts, and a net sales of 1.39 billion SEK (2022), Acast is the world largest podcasting marketplace.Responsible for the Technology organization, including Engineering, Infrastructure, InfoSec, Security, IT, and Analytics. The teams worked remote first with people distributed across Europe and United States. Continued investments in gender diversity increased it to 35% of staff in Tech.Acquired Podchaser Inc to super charge the podcasting ecosystem with the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative podcast database.During the last 12 months we went through a redundancy phase and reduced the workforce in Tech from 150 people to under 100 people. We also pivoted from a hyper growth strategy to a path towards profitability.

Stockholm, Se

IPO preparation including implementation of IT General Controls and technical due diligences. Listed at Nasdaq First North in June 2021. Continued growth to 100+ people in tech and started transitioning from a sales led to a more product led organisation. Focused investments in gender diversity and increased it from 5% to 25% of staff in Tech.Acquired RadioPublic Inc to further expand the product offering and get some of the world’s best talent within podcasting on-board at Acast.Migrated from a cloud agnostic infrastructure and on-prem/cloud hybrid to all in on AWS and implemented operations and on-call in all product teams, each of them managing the entire life-cycle of software development.

Stockholm, Se

Focused on enabling Acast to deliver faster and with higher quality while growing rapidly. Transitioned from organising in functional teams to autonomous purpose driven teams. Grew the tech organisation from 15 to 50+ people.Acquired Pippa Inc and integrated their self-serve sign up product to enable Acast to expand from an invite only platform for the biggest creators in the world to offer it to all creators in the world.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Managed the machine learning team that was building the world's best search experience for music.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

The teams I managed worked with event delivery, storage and batch processing, and data engineering tooling. We ran one of the world's largest Hadoop clusters before transitioning to GCP and processed petabytes of data daily. I have also, in parallel to being engineering manager, worked as Technical Product Owner for multiple teams. I have worked a lot with recruiting during phases of hyper growth.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

I helped bootstrap two new teams in a new department called Analytics Engineering focusing on supporting data scientists and analysts with tooling and data.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

I was responsible for all technical aspects of the company’s service offerings in Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse area as well as the team behind and the development of the "Business Intelligence as a Service" product called BISS. I planned, directed, and coordinated the development, implementation, deployment and operation of the service.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

Data consultant working with the entire data stack, data infrastructure, data integration, analytics, and business intelligence. Specialist within machine learning as well as MicroStrategy and Pentaho platforms. Assignments mainly within finance, retail and betting.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Worked with machine learning mainly in the area of recommender and personalized systems. My role included being a technical solution architect and developer of new machine learning concepts and services. I worked with the entire data stack with everything from the infrastructure to presentation with a focus on algorithms and analytics. Inventor of 17 patents in the area of machine learning.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Investigated the possibilities of improving recommendations in a recommender system for TV content by applying machine learning and collaborative filtering algorithms.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Physics

High School Diploma, Exchange Student