Chief Technology Officer at Better Mortgage
New York, New York
Associate, High Frequency Trading @ Graham Capital Management Being one half of a team managing a $700M portfolio. I loved the technical aspect of it, and got to do a lot of interesting math. After five months, Spotify decided to open up a NYC hub, and convinced me to come back and do machine learning for them...
Associate, High Frequency Trading @ Graham Capital Management Being one half of a team managing a $700M portfolio. I loved the technical aspect of it, and got to do a lot of interesting math. After five months, Spotify decided to open up a NYC hub, and convinced me to come back and do machine learning for them instead. From April 2011 to September 2011 (6 months) Rowayton, CTEngineering Manager @ Spotify I proposed and built up the Analytics team in the Stockholm office, responsible for collecting, aggregating and making sense out of all the data at Spotify. Everything from ad-hoc insights to A/B testing, visualization, ad optimization, etc. From January 2009 to March 2011 (2 years 3 months) Stockholm, SwedenSoftware Engineer Intern @ Spotify During 2008 I wrote my master's thesis on systems for doing automatic music recommendation, later awarded master's thesis of the year (by Naturvetarna - a Swedish trade union). From September 2008 to December 2008 (4 months) Stockholm, SwedenIntern Developer @ D. E. Shaw & Co. Working on parallelizing pricing of financial instruments. From July 2007 to September 2007 (3 months) Intern Software Engineer @ Google Switzerland GmbH Writing embedded code for Google's hardware infrastructure. From October 2006 to April 2007 (7 months) Developer @ TDC Song AB Working on data collection from network equipment. From September 2005 to March 2006 (7 months) Engineering Manager @ Spotify Built up the Discovery team at Spotify. I built a music recommender system from scratch using large scale machine learning algorithms and then built up a team of about 20 people to help me launch a number of features leveraging it, including data engineering, machine learning, backend, and frontend (iOS/JS).I ended up releasing a couple of open source projects at Spotify, including Luigi, a workflow management tool (used by Bitly, Foursquare, Capital One, etc), as well as Annoy, a library for high dimensional nearest neighbor search used by many companies (Instacart etc). From August 2011 to February 2015 (3 years 7 months) Greater New York City AreaChief Technology Officer @ Better.com I run the technology team at a fast growing startup focusing on the mortgage industry. I joined as one of the first ten people at the company and have been a part of the growth to more than 3,000 employees.Some things I have done here:- Interviewed 2,000+ candidates to build up a tech team of about 130 engineers- Promoted a number of engineers to managers and managers of managers- Set up a career ladder, salary review system, onboarding checklist, and a ton of other similar things- Been part of raising money (A to C so far!) and keeping the board happy- Run the product team for half a year and hired 10 product managers- Helping migrating the legacy tech stack to AWS+microservices- Contributed a significant amount to the technology, especially on the data/ML side. Greater New York City Area
Graham Capital Management
Associate, High Frequency Trading
April 2011 to September 2011
Rowayton, CT
Spotify
Engineering Manager
January 2009 to March 2011
Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify
Software Engineer Intern
September 2008 to December 2008
Stockholm, Sweden
D. E. Shaw & Co.
Intern Developer
July 2007 to September 2007
Google Switzerland GmbH
Intern Software Engineer
October 2006 to April 2007
TDC Song AB
Developer
September 2005 to March 2006
Spotify
Engineering Manager
August 2011 to February 2015
Greater New York City Area
Better.com
Chief Technology Officer
Greater New York City Area
Being one half of a team managing a $700M portfolio. I loved the technical aspect of it, and got to do a lot of interesting math. After five months, Spotify decided to open up a NYC hub, and convinced me to come back and do machine learning for them instead. Being one half of a team managing a $700M portfolio. I loved the technical aspect of it, and got to do a lot of interesting math. After five months, Spotify decided to open up a NYC hub, and convinced me to come back and do machine learning for them instead.
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Erik Bernhardsson works for Graham Capital Management
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Erik Bernhardsson is Associate, High Frequency Trading
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