Hey guys, I hope your week has been amazing! For the first Fun Friday post today, I want to introduce you to a great part of the Berlin team, Melanie Koeppen. A Berlin native, Melanie joined the content team about two months ago! Please help me welcome her.

Howdy Melanie, how ya doing?

Hey. Hope, you’re alright.

What’s your role? What do you like about it so far?

My job role says Content Manager which basically means I take care for all the content that’s being uploaded. It’s like looking after little sheep making sure they find their place in the ‘Cloud, are happy, not hungry or anything and I sing them nursery rhymes when they happen to be sad. That’s actually what I like about it. I’m not an artist myself but I feel as connected to and responsible for the sounds as they are and I want to make sure their message gets out to people.

Where are you from?

I grew up in a smallish town close to Berlin and lived in several other places before I kind of came back to Berlin.

What kind of shows do you like going to?

Good ones :) but usually music gigs in particular. I got more and more picky over the past years about what I want to actually see. I like music that delivers emotions and that touches me. And I prefer smaller venues.

What do you like about Berlin so far?

It’s a metropolis with a quite slow pace which I quite like. I also often simply stroll through the streets and get lost. I like the way you can switch between areas where absolutely nobody is and areas that are packed with people within a couple of blocks.

For our second Fun Friday of the day, please help me in saying a big “Hello” to Sarah Haswell, the fabulous music intern at the London office!

Hey Sarah! AKA, wassup?

Hej! … Who am I kidding, I’m not Swedish. SUP!

What’s your role? What do you like about it so far?

I’m the one and only music intern in SoundCloud’s London HQ. I’m working within the content team assisting with music relations. It’s a really expansive role, one day I’ll be talking to a festival, a PR company or a music school, then I’ll be chatting to smaller artists about how to make the most of SoundCloud for their audio sharing, right the way through to setting up remix competitions. My role is to help people effectively create, collaborate and share their audio content within the SoundCloud platform and the community and all the way across the interwebz.

Where are you originally from? How did the re-location work out for you?

I’m from North East of England. I moved to London in September last year and I’ve never looked back. I didn’t have much time to think about the re-location and how it would work out. I’d spent the majority of last year in Australia and within two weeks of returning to the UK I had an internship lined up, suddenly I was sleeping on someone’s floor and starting work the next day!

Sounds like the way to do it! This is a question I really love to ask, what kind of shows do you like going to?

The best this year so far have been Manchester Orchestra, Glassjaw, The Descendents and Saves The Day. I recently crawled back from Groezrock in Belgium which is one of the most awesome punk festivals out there, then there are some excellent weekenders coming up all over the UK such as K-Fest in London, Crash Doubt in Lincoln and Out Of Spite in Leeds.

What do you like about London so far?

It’s such a diverse city, no matter what you want to do London can provide it. If you want vegan tacos at 4am there’ll be somewhere in London that can provide. As for the music, jeez, I’m at shows pretty much every night of the week, there’s certainly no shortage of gigs. Plus the weather down here beats the north of England tenfold.

Any favourite music on SoundCloud right now?

• OK Pilot (UK based punk) http://soundcloud.com/ok-pilot

Latest tracks by OK Pilot

• Sakes Alive!!! (Punk rock from New York) http://soundcloud.com/sakesalive

Latest tracks by sakesalive

So Sarah, what are some reasons that someone out there reading this should join the SoundCloud team?

We’re a small team in the London office but the communication between Berlin, San Francisco and ourselves is so stellar that you constantly feel involved. Every team member has something amazing to contribute and we all get excited over really awesome, nerdy stuff. We’re all on the same page and everyone puts in an enormous amount of effort for the company. When we’re not geeking out over an app or hack our attention turns towards I Can Has Cheezburger and our roflcopters take off. I feel really proud to be a part of such a uniquely brilliant group of people.

Excellent! Lastly, can you share some fun facts with us?

I run a music blog called Are You Noisy

Oh, and I freakin’ LOVE burritos.

Wicked ! Thanks Sarah, that was an excellent interview! If you want to get to know Sarah more, check out her music blog , SoundCloud page and follow her on Twitter!

This week we are profiling our intern extraordinaire on the Community team. He comes straight from Sweden and he landed in Berlin a few months ago! Please help me in welcoming Niklas Smith!

Hej! What is cracking?

Hey! Niklas here. Having a blast doing a bunch of crazy, cool stuff here at SoundCloud!

What’s your role? What do you like about it so far?

I’m an intern at the SoundCloud Community Team. I basically help out with blogging, answering users’ questions on GetSatisfaction and helping with the SoundCloud meetups which take place all around the world! Lots of fun stuff in general–all around!

So Niklas, where are you from? How did the re-location work out for you?

I moved from northern Sweden to Berlin. It wasn’t too bad! Truth be told, most relocations take some time for me to get adjusted to–but Berlin could not have been any more of a kind city!

What kind of shows do you like going to?

I’m an omnivore. All the way from drum machines to operas and everything in between, I love going to concerts!

What do you like about Berlin so far?

Amazing history, amazing people and amazing vibe! It’s the place for the absolutely coolest tech startups in Europe.

Any favourite music on SoundCloud right now?

Loose leaf extremist by soawesome

Not only is it just great tech house by So Awesome, the whole meta-thing of where the he’s talking about the track inside the track itself just cracks me up.

Mars by Holst, performed by RCM Sinfonietta by Ben Wiffen

How can you not like Holst’s the Planets? Mars is by far one of the most bad-ass compositions ever. This recording by the Royal College of Music Sinfonietta is an absolutely top-notch rendition.

I heard you do an amazing impersonation of a famous Arnie…is this true?

Haha, yes, ask me a question at fake-arnold.takesquestions.com! I have a special place in my heart for the Governator.

Hey so do you have one, or two or three reasons why someone should join SoundCloud, or our team in particular?

It’s all about having the urge to work towards the future advancements in audio communication and entertainment. We’re in changing times, so your work here can leave a mark that lives on 50 years from now.

…also everybody here is amazing! And the Community team is so darn great!

Great! So I am wondering, what are some of your most fun facts?

• I could probably write an entire PhD thesis on how Swedish pizza is horrible
• I have great fascination of internet memes
• I almost became a child actor for a series of TV-commercials.

Thanks Niklas! You can follow him on SoundCloud, ask him questions on fake-arnold.takesquestions.com and follow him on Twitter! Make sure to say hi!