Hugo Linder
VP Of Engineering at Hedvig
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Linder is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience who currently heads a 20-person R&D organization as VP of Engineering at Hedvig, a regulated digital insurer serving 100K+ members. He progressed from senior engineer to VP in four years, founding Bontouch’s London office earlier in his career and consistently combining hands‑on technical work with people and product leadership. Hugo has led company-wide AI adoption, shipping an LLM chatbot that automates 20% of member service and AI claims automation while driving ISO 27001 certification and 99.9% uptime. He thinks deeply about deploying applied AI in production, maintaining team autonomy at scale, and building engineering culture in regulated environments. Comfortable spanning strategy and delivery, he also stepped into the acting CTPO role during a leadership transition to redesign roadmap planning and improve delivery predictability.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Datavetenskap, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Datavetenskap at Umeå University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
insurance10
android-app10
android10
dna-sequences9
swift8
user-stories8
ios6
bioinformatics5
python4
giraffe3
authentication2
typescript2
client-library2
graphiql2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hugokallstrom/hugokallstrom.github.io
Apr 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 10 months
hugokallstrom/MVVMSampleApplication
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 commits in 1 month
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