Mattias Arrelid
Chief Product Officer at Tactile Cat
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMattias Arrelid is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 17 years of experience, including 12+ years at Spotify where he rose from software engineer to multiple director roles shaping content and developer platforms. Currently Chief Product Officer at Devant and founder of Tactile Cat, he combines deep product strategy with hands-on technical fluency to build data-driven ML solutions and lifelike digital humans. He has led large cross-functional teams, launched platform-level initiatives, and advised companies on scaling product and engineering practices. Mattias thrives in environments that grant trust and autonomy, leaning into iterative learning from both mistakes and successes to evolve teams and products. Based in Stockholm with an MSc from Linköping University, he also has a track record of community building—co-founding Music Hack Day Stockholm and CocoaHeads—which reflects his appetite for practical, people-centered innovation.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Linköping University
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (74)
python10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
home-automation10
iot10
privacy10
raspberry-pi10
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
card-reader9
garden9
internet-radio8
jekyll8
lv28
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
arrelid/miele
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
A modern integration for Miele devices in Home Assistant
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 year 7 months
arrelid/arrelid.github.io
Sep 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
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