Erik Bernhardsson

At-a-Glance

Serves as CEO of Modal, an infrastructure product for data teams that manages containerization, deployment, scaling, and resource management.
Founded Modal, which helps companies deploy GPU-based models and run computationally intensive jobs.
Grew the tech team at Better from 1 to 300 engineers between 2015 and 2020.
Spent approximately seven years at Spotify, where he built the music recommendation system.
Awarded an IOI gold medal in programming competitions.

Biography

Erik Bernhardsson is the CEO and founder of Modal, an infrastructure product tailored for data teams. Modal provides a runtime environment that manages containerization, deployment, scaling, and resource management. The platform assists companies in deploying GPU-based models, running cron jobs, and fanning out large, computationally intensive tasks.

Prior to establishing Modal, Bernhardsson spent five years, from 2015 to 2020, leading the tech team at Better.