Erik Stenman
Erik Stenman has been programming for fun since 1980, and for profit since 1989 when he started his first company. He received his Master of Science in Computer Science in 1996 from Uppsala University.
Erik was one of the driving forces behind the the High Performance Erlang project (HiPE) from the start in 1996 until he successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation against opponent Simon Peyton-Jones.
During his post-doc as a project manager in Martin Odersky's Scala group, he helped bring the project to a successful release of Scala 1.0.
Before joining Kreditor he worked at Virtutech with low-level optimizations of Virtutech Simics.
Currently Chief Scientist at Klarna, Erik is responsible for the technology behind "Klarna Online", a system providing creative payment solutions to Internet shops.
Talks I've Given
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Test-driving at high speed: Klarna's agile story
Featuring David Evans and Erik Stenman
David Evans and Erik Stenman present an experience report on agile testing at Klarna, transition to Scrum and then Kanban, Erlang test automation environment, the strategies they used to adopt agile acceptance testing and their experience with Fitnesse + SlimErl
kanban erlang fitnesse testing atdd bdd agile -
Erlang Makes Money go Round
Featuring Erik Stenman
In this talk Erik will give a short introduction to Erlang, arguing for why it is so well suited for building high availability financial systems. He will present some key features of Erlang which have helped in making Kreditor a success. The talk will also touch on the downsides of using Erlang...
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Erlang in Financial Applications
Featuring Erik Stenman
Erlang in E-Commerce and Banking
Kreditor provides creative payment solutions to Internet shops. We are basically a bank specializing on E-commerce, providing secure transactions between consumers and on-line stores.
erlang e-commerce