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Engineering manager · Stockholm
Interim engineering manager in Stockholm.
Pontus Burman, founder of Papa Bravo, takes engineering, program and technology assignments and stays with them through delivery.
Situations
Reasons people get in touch
The brief is rarely a job title.
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You need an interim CTO or CIO.
Someone has to hold the technology agenda through a change of people, ownership or direction, while a permanent search takes the time it takes.
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Technology and the business have drifted.
The roadmap, the budget and what the organisation needs are no longer the same conversation.
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Delivery is busy, and still late.
People are working. Releases, dependencies and decisions do not land when the business needs them.
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Product and engineering are building past each other.
Work is happening. It is less clear who decides what good looks like, or which outcome the teams share.
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A transformation needs an owner.
The intent is agreed. The work across technology, organisation and execution is not holding together.
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The company outgrew how technology is run.
The old way of deciding, the team shape, the vendors, the architecture — some of it no longer fits.
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A large technology decision needs a second view.
Architecture, a platform, sourcing or a vendor. From someone who is not defending the current plan.
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An AI ambition needs a practical plan.
The organisation wants to use AI. It is less clear what to build, what to leave, and who would operate it.
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One programme has to cross the business, product and technology.
Business, product and technology are still separate conversations, not one plan.
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The board story and the delivery plan disagree.
What is presented to the board and what the delivery plan can do are not the same.
Background
Selected experience
Organisations, and the role at the time. The context is on the about page.
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Avanza
Engineering Manager
Dec 2025–
Responsible for two development teams.
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Euroclear
Program Manager
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Getinge
Product and project manager
Service and support, from point-of-care devices to hardware and software.
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Northfork
CTO
Prepared the IT department to scale. Also Scrum Master and Product Owner.
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Eniro Group
Interim Group CTO
Existing systems, what should come next, and the shape of the IT organisation across countries.
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Trustly
Head of Platform
The infrastructure and automation teams other teams build and operate on.
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Unilabs
IT Director, North
Regional direction, one IT organisation, and the regional IT budget.
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MedHelp
CIO
IT strategy, the main product platform, and how the business and IT worked together.
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Klarna
Manager, Cloud and Middleware
Cloud, databases, Windows and middleware, so development teams had a platform to build on.
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Klarna
Head of Infrastructure
Cloud, databases, servers and the operations around them.
If this fits, get in touch.
A few lines on the situation and the timing are enough.
Still building
My Star Day and Körpasset are in production. They are not client case studies.
Körpasset
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