Engineering Executive · CTO / VP Engineering / Head of Engineering · Ex-Google
Henrik is an engineering executive who works at the intersection of technical strategy, architecture, execution, and team leadership. His experience spans Google-scale backend systems, enterprise fintech architecture, and Head of Engineering roles in high-growth Web3/startup environments.
Led engineering strategy, architecture, hiring, and delivery for a crypto-native growth platform. Built and scaled a multidisciplinary team across frontend, backend, and smart contracts. Delivered campaign tooling, analytics, loyalty infrastructure, and smart contract integrations through a high-growth phase.
Worked on large-scale Shopping backend systems, including ML-based price extraction and global crawling infrastructure processing over 1B pages per day. Improved a core price extraction model by 20% and designed onboarding improvements with potential company-wide ramp-up cost impact.
Advised banks, fintechs, and enterprise clients on distributed ledger architecture, cloud deployment, performance, security, and production readiness. Built cloud-native deployment patterns for Corda Enterprise across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Led architecture and implementation of an intelligent shopping platform spanning mobile applications, indoor navigation, e-payment, real-time backend systems, analytics, and cloud infrastructure. Helped secure over €1M in Tekes / Business Finland funding.
Henrik is open to selected CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, Interim CTO, Interim Head of Engineering, and Fractional CTO opportunities across Europe or remote-first teams. The strongest fit is AI, fintech, Web3 / blockchain, infrastructure, developer platforms, complex B2B products, and engineering organisations moving through scale, transition, or execution pressure.