Summary
Mattis Erngren is a Stockholm-based engineering leader and founder with 10+ years of experience building data-driven teams, product platforms, and coaching organizations through scaling and stress-aware performance. As founder of Lightly and former Head of Engineering at Worldfavor, he combines hands-on product and engineering management with facilitation—running workshops, courses and retreats for clients like Spotify, Klarna and SVT across NYC, London and San Francisco. He has led analytics and risk engineering functions at iZettle, growing teams, shipping data platforms and embedding better ways of working while also founding a wellbeing-focused startup (Thriver). A published novelist and avid D&D/tea enthusiast, he brings a human-centered perspective to technical leadership, pairing organizational psychology with practical engineering delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Vocational school 2 years Leadership project management, Vocational school 2 years Leadership project management at Idékraft
History religion, History religion at Uppsala University