Lennart Svensson

He leads the product team and is responsible for everything on the engineering and product side of Maesn. Day to day that means translating a functional goal into the technical path to it: which endpoints, in which order and what the target system will and will not allow.

• Authentication and connected accounts
• Webhooks and event models
• Target systems and coverage
• Capturing incoming invoices
• Payment reconciliation
• Getting invoices paid

1. 2018 to 2023
   Enterprise Architect, Storebrand

   In Oslo, at Norway's largest private asset manager, which also runs banking, insurance and pension business. He led strategic programmes on the technical side and advised senior management on anything from M&A to system roadmaps. Building up new departments and recruiting into them was part of it.

2. 2013 to 2018
   Associate Manager and Technology Architect, Accenture

   In Oslo, which was also a move home, because he is half Norwegian. Team lead, then system architect, lead architect and finally chief architect on very large programmes: the identity platform for Telenor, and the largest agile project in Norway's public sector, which included the high-performance calculation jobs behind the Norwegian pension system.

3. 2009 to 2013
   Specialist and Senior Specialist, mobile application design and development, Deutsche Telekom

   In the Cologne and Bonn region, building apps for Android, Symbian and Windows. Several of them are still among the largest German apps in the stores. The team piloted agile development for Telekom and then coached other departments through it.

4. 2007 to 2009
   Customer Engineer, Symbian

   In London, in the professional services team that helped Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung get their smartphones to market on Symbian, then the operating system on around 70 percent of them. Included a tenure in Chicago for Motorola and an Extra Mile Award in 2008.

5. 2002 to 2007
   MSc, computer science, Uppsala University

   With an exchange year at the National University of Singapore and a master thesis at the University of Zürich on secure decentralised voting in peer-to-peer networks, which reads today like an early version of what became blockchain. He had been programming since he was nine.