Stefan Ålund
Principal Product Manager at Volvo Cars
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolStefan Ålund is a Principal Product Manager with 15 years of experience building developer platforms and infrastructure for scale, currently shaping the Volvo Cars app experience and enabling fast iteration across product teams. He previously led platform developer experience at Spotify, managing the Backstage open-source project and its internal deployment to streamline engineering workflows. His background combines deep telecom and real-time systems expertise from Ericsson with hands-on product leadership in mobility and consumer apps. Stefan focuses on platformization and developer experience, translating complex infrastructure needs into usable developer tools and consistent product experiences. Based in Greater Stockholm, he blends research-led thinking with pragmatic delivery—an operator who has repeatedly moved teams to ship faster without sacrificing long-term platform health. An early co-founder and long-time engineer, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and institutional-scale product craft to platform challenges.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyFarsta Gymnasium
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Github Skills (93)
material-ui10
infrastructure10
dx10
microservices10
javascript10
react-components10
gstreamer10
mui10
location10
typescript10
service-catalog10
webrtc10
material-design10
backstage10
react10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
EricssonResearch/bowser
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
A WebRTC browser for iOS developed in the open
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
ioswebrtcbrowser
spotify/backstage-microsite
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Website and documentation for Backstage
Contributions:58 PRs, 56 pushes, 39 branches in 4 months
backstage
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