Hans Granqvist

Experience

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  Noosphere Technologies

  Interim Chief Technology Officer

  Jan 2024 - Present

  Noosphere Technologies specializes in creating trust infrastructure for digital media in the GenAI/LLM era, addressing digital identity, authenticity, and provenance.

  • Assisted in pivoting company towards securing funding and refining business model in trust infrastructure space.
  • Engaged in strategic architectural decisions and hands-on technical contributions due to early-stage nature of the company.
  • Played an instrumental role in addressing the challenges of distinguishing genuine from fake digital content in a post-truth landscape.
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  Cleanlab

  Head of Engineering

  Feb 2024 - Jul 2024

  Pioneered at MIT and proven at Fortune 500 companies, Cleanlab provides the world's most popular Data-Centric AI software, focusing on automatically curating data/knowledge for trusted AI responses.

  • Delivered full-stack AI SaaS and APIs, including Trustworthy Language Model, with a dedicated team of 12 engineers, advancing Cleanlab's product suite.
  • Expanded SaaS to self-hosting capabilities in under 6 weeks, significantly increasing the company's ability to land key new accounts.
  • Led product planning efforts, successfully aligning key priorities and stakeholder expectations, ensuring project alignment and efficiency.
  • Optimized CI/CD processes, reducing on-call issues by 50% and achieving a 2x increase in delivery velocity, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and product deployment timelines.
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  Datadog

  Director Of Engineering

  Dec 2021 - Jan 2024

  Datadog provides cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces and logs in one unified platform.

  • Created a new data platform that supported the launch of over 25 products, significantly increasing product adoption rates.
  • Successfully led a team of 30 engineers and managers, emphasizing rapid delivery and cross-functional collaboration with top executives.
  • Achieved a 20x growth in ingest/query volumes while doubling team size and improving performance & cost metrics by 25%.
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  LinkedIn

  Senior Engineering Manager

  Aug 2018 - Mar 2021

  LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.

  • Led a team of 25 engineers and managers to develop a scalable media infrastructure, handling 100M+ daily media uploads and managing 1M+ queries per second, while maintaining over 99.99% availability.
  • Created and implemented LinkedIn’s media strategy and long-term roadmap, fostering cross-organizational collaboration to support the growing demand and doubling data volumes.
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  LinkedIn

  Senior Engineering Manager

  Apr 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Led the Performance Apps Team of 20 engineers, developing tools and services like Dyno, EKG, and RUM to optimize service performance, saving over $50M annually.
  • Managed projects with real-time requirements, processing billions of daily events, including classifying every exception frame thrown across LinkedIn's global fleet.
  • Defined and began implementation of infra chargeback systems to calculate the actual dollar cost of serving content, rolling this out to major backend infrastructure teams.
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  LinkedIn

  Engineering Manager

  Sep 2015 - Apr 2017

  • Optimized LinkedIn’s website performance, leading a team of 20 engineers to achieve a 20% faster site speed.
  • Implemented comprehensive tooling at LinkedIn, resulting in over $50M yearly reduction in operational costs.
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  Roku

  Sr. Manager, Web Services

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2015

  Roku is a leader in the television streaming industry, offering a range of products and services including smart TVs, streaming players, and its own streaming platform that hosts Roku Originals.

  • Assembled and led a team of 10 engineers to successfully launch Roku Feed, Roku's inaugural AWS service, achieving an impressive 99.97%+ global uptime.
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  Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs)

  Senior Researcher

  Apr 2014 - Jul 2014

  MovieLabs is a non-profit research and development joint venture founded by the major Hollywood studios, focused on advancing film and TV industry technologies.

  • Researched technologies for distribution and use of consumer media, focusing on the cloud-based digital rights system “Ultraviolet”
  • Created a Java reference implementation for the Ultraviolet system’s metadata, contributing to the development and standardization of digital rights management technologies
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  Millicom (Tigo)

  Chief Technology Officer

  Apr 2013 - Jul 2014

  Millicom (Tigo) is a leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications services in Latin America, offering a broad range of digital services and products.

  • Hired and led a team that grew from 0 to 20+ to successfully create and deploy new digital entertainment services, including a video-on-demand service and a social TV guide across multiple regions.
  • Designed and implemented a comprehensive cloud-based AWS deployment strategy, integrating and evaluating third-party products and services to enhance the service offerings.
  • Managed the production of several core components, like utilities, libraries, and recommendation systems, demonstrating hands-on technical leadership and coding skills.
  • Achieved the launch of a full-featured digital product incorporating billing, DRM streaming, and video ingestion in less than a year, showcasing rapid development and deployment capabilities.
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  Netflix

  Sr. Software Engineer

  Oct 2008 - Feb 2012

  At Netflix, we want to entertain the world. Whatever your taste, and no matter where you live, we give you access to best-in-class TV series, documentaries, feature films and mobile games.

  • Owned the personalized title and character similarity systems serving 1B+ daily requests, resulting in a 20x performance improvement after migrating to AWS and rearchitecting the services.
  • Developed the Zuul API gateway, processing 2B+ daily requests.
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  Yubico

  CTO & Principal Engineer

  Jun 2007 - Oct 2008

  Yubico invents and offers the YubiKey for multi-factor authentication, pioneering phishing-resistant security globally. It sets standards in secure access across multiple devices and internet accounts.

  • Led the early stage development as the CTO & first non-founding engineer, shaping the initial direction and technology of the pioneering YubiKey product.
  • Established and expanded Yubico's presence in the US by setting up the first office and building the initial team in the Plug and Play incubator.
  • Conceptualized and developed Yubico's initial public REST API and client-side libraries, establishing a foundation for scalable, secure authentication solutions.