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Erik Bernhardsson

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CEO at Modal Labs
📍 New York, New York, United States

Erik Bernhardsson is the CEO and founder of Modal, an infrastructure product for data and AI teams. His career includes scaling Better. coms tech team from one to 300 and building Spotifys original music recommendation system. He earned his M. Sc. in Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Originally from Sweden and now based in NYC, Erik has a deep-rooted passion for competitive programming that began in high school. He is a prolific blogger on topics ranging from software engineering to management, a hobby he started to improve his writing and share ideas.

Unique fact: Erik is a decorated competitive programmer, holding a gold medal from the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) and having won the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest five times.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
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AI Infrastructure
As the founder of Modal, his entire focus is on building the next generation of serverless infrastructure specifically for AI, ML, and data workloads.
Music Recommendation
He built the original music recommendation system at Spotify and frequently discusses the machine learning and infrastructure challenges involved in that foundational work.
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Career

Work history

1-2021
CEO
Modal Labs
2-2015 - 1-2021
Chief Technology Officer
Better.com
8-2011 - 2-2015
Engineering Manager
Spotify
4-2011 - 9-2011
Associate, High Frequency Trading
Graham Capital Management
1-2009 - 3-2011
Engineering Manager
Spotify
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Education
2003 - 2008
M. Sc.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2006 - 2006
Physics
Technische Universität Berlin
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