Henrik Oscarsson · CTO

Engineering teams that ship in days, not weeks.

I make engineering teams faster by changing how they work, not by adding process. CTO at CIKO, building Trygga.

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Henrik Oscarsson

At CIKO, since April 2026

  • Three teams, 15 engineers in total, now working as one team with tight, everyday communication.
  • 1–2 days Typical time to ship a feature, down from 1–2 weeks.
  • < 6 months From joining to a new way of working, in place and delivering.

How I work

Four deliberate choices that remove friction and give people ownership.

  1. 01

    One standup, one topic.

    Instead of a ticket-by-ticket status round, each day's standup is about the single most important thing for the team right now. Meetings stay short, and everyone leaves knowing what matters today.

  2. 02

    Under half a day? Just do it.

    Small fixes, tech debt and improvements don't need a ticket, a refinement session or permission. That creates flow and ownership, and the platform keeps getting better on its own.

  3. 03

    Work in twos and threes.

    When a task needs it, people group up in pairs or threes. Knowledge spreads naturally, and the team builds a shared view of how we build things, without relying on documentation.

  4. 04

    Agentic by default.

    I introduce AI by example: start with concrete, repetitive tasks like "build a UI component to our standards, with tests", then move to agentic frameworks that handle the orchestration.

Fewer rituals.
More flow.
Faster teams.

Track record

25 years building the systems myself.

Often where latency, reliability and scale aren't negotiable. Before CIKO, I was CTO at Valuno Group, and I've spent many years working in high-transaction environments, most of them trading systems.

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  • Trading and exchanges AMEX in New York, Credit Suisse in London, NASDAQ OMX, SIX Telekurs, SFE in Australia.
  • High-performance systems Real-time trading terminals, threading models, latency-critical clients.
  • Product platforms Barnebys (marketplaces), FRISQ (healthtech), iFACTS (insurance), Trust Anchor Group (digital identity).
  • Large-scale delivery Tech lead for 16 developers in a 40-person e-commerce programme in London.
  • Also contracted by Nokia and Microsoft.

Let's compare notes

My focus is CIKO and Trygga. Outside of that, I'm always up for a conversation with other engineering leaders about:

  • Ways of working

    How small changes to rituals and ownership make a team noticeably faster.

  • Agentic development

    What it takes, in practice, to move a team to AI-driven development.

  • Talks and workshops

    Presenting the approach to engineering teams and leadership groups.

Say hello.

Whether you want to compare notes on ways of working or agentic development, or you're looking for a talk or workshop, I'm happy to hear from you.

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