Summary
Jokull Johannsson is a Senior Product Manager with 10 years of experience building data foundations, ML platforms, and analytics at companies including Visa, Spotify and CCP. He combines an MSc in Machine Learning from KTH with hands-on engineering roots—having started as a developer and researcher—to shepherd teams of data scientists, ML engineers and platform owners from research to production. At Visa he now leads AI product vision and tooling for Open Banking, driving cross-functional alignment across data infrastructure, operational databases and model delivery. Jokull has a track record of framing business impact through clear metrics and pragmatic technical choices, balancing speed-to-market with maintainability and compliance. A longtime practitioner in fraud detection and large-scale data pipelines, he also serves on Iceland’s research funding committee, bringing a grant-review perspective to product strategy. Colleagues describe him as an eager learner who thrives in fast-moving environments and turns complex data problems into operational products.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Machine Learning, Master’s Degree Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Photography, Photography at Medieskolerne _ Media College Denmark
English, Danish, Icelandic, Swedish