Overview
Senior Engineering Manager with a strong product mindset, leading customer-facing data platforms at scale. I turn strategy into execution across product experience, high-scale infrastructure, and applied AI, with a focus on customer insight, reliability, and business impact. I lead through engineering managers and partner closely with Product, Design, and senior 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
Lead a substantial portfolio within Datadog Logs, spanning core customer-facing investigation experiences and the high-scale query infrastructure behind them. Lead five Engineering Managers across five teams and ~35 engineers across frontend, backend, product, and applied AI engineering.
- Set product and engineering direction for AI-era log investigation, query performance, reliability, and cost-efficient access to massive log volumes.
- Drive organizational design and execution planning across my teams and the broader ~90-person Logs group.
- Delivered AI-powered log parsing and led ongoing development of Federated Logs, helping customers extract structure from raw logs, investigate data across Datadog and external storage, and move faster from query to insight.
- Partner with Product, Design, and senior engineering leadership to prioritize strategic bets and drive execution.
Datadog — Engineering Manager 2022 - 2025. Remote, Sweden
Led and scaled engineering for Datadog's Logs web product and associated APIs, growing from direct team leadership into a manager-of-managers role overseeing three teams, three Engineering Managers, and ~20 engineers.
- Hired, promoted, reorganized, and developed teams while maintaining delivery across globally distributed engineering groups.
- Delivered commercially significant products including Flex Logs and Log Workspaces, expanding how customers manage cost, retention, and investigation workflows for large-scale log data.
- Stewarded two new compliance products to global availability: Sensitive Data Scanner and Audit Trail, broadening Datadog's compliance and governance capabilities.
Sonos — Software Engineering Manager 2019 - 2022. Paris, France
- I managed the frontend team in Sonos SVE, a product R&D division that eventually launched Sonos Voice Control. My responsibilities included 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.