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Ville Svärd

Observer · DISC type ci
Director of Engineering at Mentimeter
📍 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

As Director of Engineering at Mentimeter, Ville Svärd leads teams in developer experience, site reliability, and cloud infrastructure. With a background scaling organizations and a Masters from Uppsala University, he is an expert in creating effective systems of software and people. Colleagues describe him as immensely helpful, resourceful, and humble.

Ville is passionate about software and its delivery, showing a keen interest in learning from technical challenges like cloud outages and staying current on topics like Large Language Models. During career transitions, he prioritizes time to relax and pursue personal hobbies.

He holds a unique "Perfect Dispense Training Programme" certification, an unusual and interesting qualification for a Director of Engineering.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Personality Overview

How Ville shows up

Curious
Assertive
Example Seeker

They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince.

Priorities

Topics Ville cares about

Developer Experience
A core part of his current role at Mentimeter is leading teams to enhance developer platforms and improve the overall engineering environment.
Cloud Infrastructure
He is responsible for cloud infrastructure and vendor management at Mentimeter and shows a public interest in learning from major cloud provider outages.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Director of Engineering
Mentimeter
2-2024 - 4-2024
Career transition
Career Break
4-2019 - 1-2024
Deputy CTO
Funnel
8-2018 - 3-2019
Consultant
Spotify
1-2011 - 3-2019
Consultant
Agical AB
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
1995 - 2000
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Uppsala University
1998 - 1998
Informatik
University of Stuttgart
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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