Patrik Åkerfeldt

Patrik Åkerfeldt has over 17 years of experience in the software engineering and IT industries. Patrik began their career in 2003 as an IT Consultant at Digilize. In 2006, they joined Binero AB as a Developer and System Administrator, where they had the sole responsibility of all FreeBSD and Linux systems. In 2007, they were a Consultant at Business Vision. In 2008, they were a Software Developer and Software Engineer at Saab AB, where they were part of a team providing core functions to their fourth generation marine command and control system. In 2010, they joined Citerus AB as a Software Development Consultant. In 2011, they were a Co-founder at Tap2 AB, developing Gnooler, a social, location based music service. In 2012, they were a Software Developer at Rebtel and a Self-employed Android Developer, developing and selling a home automation app. From 2013 to 2020, they were a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Owner at Spotify, where they managed and lead development of their internal video playback SDK and strived to do well-informed data-driven decisions. Since 2020, they have been the CTO and Staff Software Engineer at Znipe Esports, where they have supported backend, infrastructure and data pipelines and designed and implemented a brand new data pipeline using Google infrastructure.

Patrik Åkerfeldt attended Uppsala University from 2002 to 2005, where they obtained an M.Sc. in Information Technology. Prior to this, they attended Fyrisskolan from 1999 to 2002. In 2017, they obtained a Machine Learning certification from Coursera.