Summary
Johannes Kolberg is a product and engineering leader with nine years of experience scaling AI-driven products and teams across Europe and the US. He has led and right-sized engineering and product organizations—from hands-on ML and data engineering roles at Cognite and Amazon to building a 15-person deeptech team at Encube and a 35-person org at IndyKite—consistently translating research-grade AI into customer-ready software. Based in Oslo, he advises and invests in early-stage AI startups, backing companies like Sanna, Daymaker and Watchdog while guiding B2B teams through inflection points in product, engineering, data, and AI strategy. Johannes combines rigorous academic training (MS in Data Science from Harvard and an MS in Economics from NHH) with practical delivery experience shipping stealth launches and landing Fortune 500 customers. He is comfortable in presales and customer-facing roles as well as technical execution, having built production ML pipelines, SDKs, and knowledge-graph products. A pragmatic operator with a researcher’s attention to modelling and data quality, he’s equally at home coaching teams and diving into code or architecture when needed.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Semester, Exchange Semester at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Harvard University
Master of Science - MS Economics and Business Administration, Master of Science - MS Economics and Business Administration at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
English, Norwegian, French