Henrik Pettersson
Engineering Manager at Spotify
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHenrik Pettersson is an experienced engineering manager with 13+ years building consumer-facing web and mobile products, currently leading the Consumer App team at Klarna for the global Klarna App. He combines full-stack JavaScript expertise (Node.js, React, React Native) with hands-on leadership, shaping technical direction, hiring pipelines, and cross-domain initiatives for scalable payment and banking experiences. His career spans high-profile consumer and media platforms—from visual music analytics at Musicmetric to multilingual news sites at the BBC—bringing strong frontend roots and a pragmatic approach to product-driven engineering. At Klarna he helped grow a domain from a small founding team into a 100+ contributor organization, showing an ability to scale teams and processes alongside products. Based in Stockholm, he pairs deep technical knowledge with recruitment and managerial impact, often balancing coding contributions with strategic hiring and roadmap ownership. An early adopter of data visualization techniques and a long tenure in both startup and enterprise contexts, he brings a blend of craft-level engineering and organizational scaling experience.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)M.Sc., Media Technology, M.Sc., Media Technology at Linköping University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (8)
klarna3
react3
react-native2
archived1
react-components1
react-component-library1
component-library1
ui-components1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
henpe/Whitburn
Nov 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:140 commits in 1 year 4 months
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