Erik Lönroth – CV

Personal

Erik Lönroth, 1978

Contact Information

erik.lonroth@gmail.com

Education

M.Sc. Computer Science  (C) – Linköpings Tekniska Högskola

High school,  Technical – Södertälje

Companies Founded/Ownership Engagements

2021 – Dwellir AB – Software infrastructure for digital autonomy and digital sovereignty.

2017 – CIO, ImpactVision LLC (FoodTech, HyperSpectral Imaging)

2017 – Board member, Foodview AB, Foodtech & image analytics consultancy

1996 – Founder, ET computer – IT retailing & consultancy, Sweden

Selected Current Professional & Angel Positions

Founder/CTO – Dwellir AB

Chairman Open Source Forum – Scania CV (Sweden)

Infrastructure Architect – Scania Infrastructure

Board member – Open Source Sweden (Sweden)

Professional advisor – LIM-IT research project on open source research in software domains.

Professional advisor – SUDO research project on open source in software domains.

Selected Professional Accomplishments

2021 – Founded Dwellir AB

2005-2022 – Technology Lead for High Performance Computing – Scania CV (Sweden)

2019 – Sold startup – ImpactVision LLC, Silicon Valley, USA

2018 – Angel advisor – Omnivector Solutions, PL/OR

2017 – Landmark – Engineering the 12:th datacenter size HPC cluster for Scania.

2017 – Customer advisory board – GitHub (Sweden)

2016 – Founded – “Open Source Forum” at ScaniaIT and introduced corporate wide Open Source strategy.

2005 – Achievement – Scanias first professional HPC cluster based on open source Rocks Clusters.

2004 – Academic – Tutoring artificial intelligence Technical University of Linköping (LiTH)

Current Active Technologies

• Cryptocurrency infrastructure (validators, staking, security, infrastructure, private clouds)
• Robotics, micro-controllers, sensor systems.
• Machine Learning, and its applications.
• Large scale Private Cloud deployment.
• Large scale systems operations with JUJU
• Computer Imaging technologies.
• Linux everything.
• Networking.
• Programming (python,java,c,c++,perl etc.)
• Artistic 3D design.
• CMS programming.
• HPC systems and their applications, MPI, SLURM, etc.

Selected Social & NGOs  

2019 – Community open source education for Edgeryders EU. 

2017 – Board member – PORTEN. Channeling local citizens activities and relations with government.

2017 – Organizer – Burning Man European Leadership Summit – Stockholm

2013 – Chairman – Local Stockholm Pirate Party driving issues for Internet freedom, privacy and cultural enrichment.

Selected Awards & Honors

2013 – Award – Swedish IT Architect of the year IDG.

1995 – Award – Price from the King of Sweden for young authors against racism, Stockholm.

Selected Keynotes & Lectures

2020 – Keynote Ubuntu Masters – “Mastering multicloud with SLURM and Juju“.

2019 – Fundamentals of cloud and their impact on open source software development – Stockholm/Sweden

2018 – Designing and building dynamic, hyperconverged HPC clusters – HLSR/Germany

2017 – Robot Operating System Lecturing and Motor Control – Tumba/Sweden

2015 – Keynote on High Performance Computing in automotive – PRACE/Barcelona

2014 – Keynote on High Performance Computing in automotive – EMEA/Barcelona

Selected Open Source Projects & Participation

2022 – Community lead for Juju in EU.

2019 – Maintainer of Nextcloud (private cloud) community and professional juju charm.

2018 – Development and enterprise grade infrastructure – Juju.

2017 – Board member – Open Source Sweden.

2016 – Networking & Arts – IPv6 flamethrower.

2016 – Robotics – Prototyping autonomous ROS robots.

2013 – Development – Bitcoin E-commerce.

Selected Papers, Scientific Articles & Chapters

Open Source Systems: Towards Robust Practices: 13th IFIP WG 2.13

pMCMC use case for comparison between Spark and MPI

Master Thesis HGVbase – A database engine to search genetic variations SNP. Karolinska Institutet (2005)

Design and Implementation of a Database API for Genetic Variations, LITH-IDA-EX–04/043–SE 2014