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Authentic, philosophical, visionary, passionate leader driven by creative urge, open to changes, with a long-term vision; very well-versed engineer with extensive management and leadership know-how.I'm the CTO at King, one of the most successful mobile gaming companies in history, now owned by Microsoft. With this role, my focus is shifting from running large engineering teams to strategy, specifically around technology, AI, and productivity, and how to organize and execute a technology strategy that delivers on an ambitious company strategy to bring more value to players. I was SVP Engineering and CTO at TomTom from 2019-2024. I led a significant engineering and product transformation to reboot the core product portfolio and rethink the strategy for an increasingly AI—and open-data-driven world.I was previously VP Digital Foundation at Zalando. I headed the team that leverages Zalando's centralized tech investments: everything digital that provides Zalando Group leverage, unfair advantages, or needs to scale beyond a single business. My domain included the build and compute infrastructure, data, and data science enablement infrastructure, governance topics including security, compliance, risk, controlling, PMO, and architecture, our shared tech community and culture, and the digital workplace.Previously, I was Zalando's first VP of Engineering, helping to roll out Radical Agility, which was a step change in how we organized and motivated teams. I also architected systems for the cloud to scale with users and the growth of the business.Before that, I was VP Architecture at Gilt Groupe. Gilt has insane non-functional requirements, with millions of members hitting the website within a few minutes daily.Before that, I was a strategic architect for TomTom, focused primarily on service delivery, systems, and APIs.Before that, I was CTO at LooCee, where we built an advertising and messaging platform play, managed a remote team, negotiated with vendors, and did the typical failed startup thing.Before that, I was the principal architect for 3's Service Delivery Platform, the world's first 3G SDP.Before that, I led the client development for the innovative DoDots offering. Its spirit, if not embodiment, lives on in the likes of Google Desktop Gadgets and the Mac OSX Dashboard, which are direct descendants of the concept.In my first real job, I led the technical development (graphics, UI, system) for The Sims 1.0 franchise, the best-selling PC game ever.

Listed skills include Software Development, Software Design, Java, Agile Methodologies, and 46 others.