Jon Østerby Carlsen

Engineering executive who sets technology strategy and then executes it, end to end. Around 20 years scaling organisations across Europe and Asia, and now building AI and real-time data products at AXON Networks, where LLM-driven agents act on live network telemetry arriving at up to 50,000 datapoints per second per device.

Scope Executive engineering leadership over focused 40 to 50 person organisations and a business-wide transformation that reached around 200 engineers. Full remit across product, engineering, QA, and operations, with P&L responsibility, technology and AI strategy, security, and compliance.

Summary

Technology executive, now Director of Engineering and AI for EMEA at AXON Networks, where I own the organisation behind a cloud-native platform that turns network telemetry into operational insight and built the AI/ML team that puts LLM-driven agents on the live streams. Before AXON Networks I ran around 50-person engineering organisations as Director at Lunar and VP at Scrive, and held the full CTO remit at eSignatur, leading agile transformation, owning product, and lifting engineering practice. Earlier, at DFDS, I built the developer-platform department from 3 to 20 and drove a business-wide move to cloud-native that reached around 200 engineers and 500+ microservices on Kubernetes, from zero in three years. The through-line is simple: I tend to leave an organisation a maturity stage further along than I found it.

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Expertise

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering & AI (EMEA)

    AXON Networks

    Jun 2023 – Present

    Lead the AXON Orchestrator organisation in EMEA, around 40 people, plus supporting integration of 70 across Europe. Own the engineering and AI behind a cloud-native platform that turns network telemetry into operational insight at up to 50,000 datapoints per second per device, and built the AI/ML team that puts LLM-driven agents on those live streams. Set the target cloud architecture, led the move from Java to Go, and built a continuous-delivery culture with clear ownership, holding one coherent architecture through post-acquisition integration.

  2. Advisory Board Member

    Heeplink

    Dec 2022 – Apr 2024

    Advisory role for a digital platform matching skilled people with the projects that need them.

  3. Director of Technology, Developer & Platform Experience

    Lunar A/S

    Aug 2022 – Feb 2023

    Led Lunar's developer and platform experience department, around 50 people across 5 teams at a Nordic challenger bank. Ran it on OKRs with Team Topologies and domain-driven design, enabling self-service for engineering, data, and security while holding continuous regulatory compliance.

  4. VP of Service Operations & CTO of eSignatur

    Scrive

    Oct 2021 – Aug 2022

    Took on Scrive's service operations after it acquired eSignatur, retaining ownership of eSignatur and leading around 50 people across 5 teams (Firefighters, QA, DevOps, SRE, and e-signature) within a 200+ person, Vitruvian-backed business. Cut yearly operational cost by around 10% through AWS and database optimisation, stood up an EU-hosted version on Kubernetes for GDPR, drove ISO 27001 certification, and grew three team leads into managers.

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