Andreas Ehn

Current

Member of advisory board at Load Impact
CTO at Spotify

Past

Project manager at Stardoll
Software engineering intern at BEA Systems
Freelance writer at IDG

Summer student/intern at CERN

see less...

1 more...

Education

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Deutsche Schule Brüssel
Deutsche Schule Stockholm

see less...

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Andreas Ehn’s Summary

I'm passionate about building great companies and great Internet services.

Andreas Ehn’s Specialties:

tech recruiting, systems architecture, getting the Internet, understanding economics as well as technology, inspiring people

Andreas Ehn’s Experience

Member of advisory board

Load Impact

(Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)
CTO

Spotify

(Internet industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years)

Chief technical officer at Internet startup, building great tech, having loads of fun
Project manager

Stardoll

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)

Started out as a developer, then managed the second release of www.stardoll.com
Software engineering intern

BEA Systems

(Public Company; BEAS; Computer Software industry)

March 2005 — August 2005 (6 months)

Built a static-analysis framework and hooked it up with a code quality data warehouse
Freelance writer

IDG

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

March 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 3 months)
Summer student/intern

CERN

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

Working for the networking group of the ATLAS experiment on the LHC, I wrote Python code driving FPGA chips generating very high network load (Gp/s range) to load-test equipment for the switching fabric of ATLAS's data acquisition layers

Andreas Ehn’s Education

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

MSc , Computer Science , 2000 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

Delegate of the Student Union Council (kårfullmäktigeledamot), Member of the board of the Computer Science branch of the Student Union (styrelseledamot i D-rektoratet), Infomaster
Deutsche Schule Brüssel
Deutsche Schule Stockholm

Additional Information

Andreas Ehn’s Websites:

Andreas Ehn’s Interests:

New technology, accellerating growth, Internet economics, Internet-based peer production, startups, software development, free software, open source, ubiquitous computing, molecular manufacturing