Jakob Wolman's work experience is as follows:
1. Storytel (2020-present)
- Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering lead Experience domain
- Leading a domain with four cross-functional teams
- Managing four engineering managers and two staff engineers
- Working closely with the director of product
2. Storytel (2022-present)
- Senior Engineering Manager, Personalization, Experience domain
- Leading a small but strategically important team
- Dealing with personalizing the service and using machine learning for recommendations
- Creating a system for curating the audiobook experience in multiple markets
3. Storytel (2022)
- Director of Engineering (interim) - Core Experience
- Directing a domain (department) with six cross-functional teams
- Leading the core experience of the Storytel service
4. Storytel (2020-2022)
- Tech Manager
- Built and led a high-performing team of engineers in different tech stacks
- Developed algorithms for recommending books
- Contributed to the customer-facing service of Storytel
5. Øredev (2018-present)
- Member of Program Committee
- Involved in designing the program and creating experiences for a developer conference
6. Danske Bank (2018-2020)
- Agile Coach
- Supported the agile development process in the bank
7. Qlik (2013-2018)
- Innovation Coach
- Supported R&D in building innovation capabilities
- Applied scientific methods, experimentation, and learning
- Developed a process for testing new ideas
- Agile Coach
- Helped the organization use systems thinking, lean, and agile principles
8. Øredev (2012-2014)
- Member of Program Committee
- Responsible for the Agile track at a developer conference
9. Jayway (2012-2013)
- Team Coach & Project Manager for Xperia Lounge
- Led a cross-functional team in creating an app for Xperia Lounge
- Team Coach & Project Manager for 3Switch
- Led a team in creating 3Switch, a mobile switching service
- Team Lead for Software Taskforce
- Helped the team with work processes, visualization, and task prioritization
- Team Lead at Jayway Creations
- Helped establish a new organization within Jayway
- Team Lead at Fress
- Led the development of the SOS services application
10. Jayway AB (2012)
- Team Lead at Cloudfinder
- Led an agile team in creating a solution for Cloudfinder.com
11. Jayway ApS (2011-2012)
- Team Coach at mitt3
- Coached a team in developing a self-service application for a mobile operator
- Team Coach at VP Securities
- Helped define requirements and protected the team's work
- Java Developer (consultant) at Handelsbanken
- Developed a backend for webbanking applications
- Developer/Agile advocate at Politikens Hus
- Implemented Java integration for an SSO solution
- Team Coach in an internal project for 3
- Coached a team in implementing mobile applications
12. Jayway ApS (2007-2010)
- Java Consultant at Securitas Direct
- Developed a web portal for a new alarm system concept
- Java Consultant at IKEA IT
- Worked on a web application and API for managing a user database
13. Øredev (2009-2010)
- Member of Program Committee
- Responsible for the Java/JVM track at a developer conference
Jakob Wolman's education history includes a Master of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Telecommunications from The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. Jakob attended this university from 2000 to 2005. In 2004, Jakob also briefly studied Business Law and Theology at Lund University. Before attending Lund University, they completed their secondary education at Norra Real from 1997 to 1999.
In addition to their formal education, Jakob has obtained several certifications. Jakob became an Agile fluency facilitator through the Agile Fluency Project in August 2019. Jakob earned their Certified Agile Leadership I certification from the Scrum Alliance in January 2018. In September 2014, they obtained an International Coaching Certificate from the World Coaching Organization. Furthermore, Jakob acquired a Scrum Master certification from the Scrum Alliance in June 2008 and a Sun Certified Java Programmer certification from Sun in the same month and year.
October 1, 2023 - present
January, 2023
March, 2022
January, 2022
February, 2020