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Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia, Fi

I manage teams of talented software engineers supporting the best-in-class ŌURA smart ring.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Head of Mobile – responsible for a global 30-person organization of managers, tech leads, and app developers. Within the first 9 months, grew the Seattle-based teams from 4 to 12 developers and restructured the Beijing teams in alignment with the new subscription-oriented business strategy.Delivered successive Android and iOS releases to an audience of 5M+ MAU, in support of a growing lineup of Wyze IoT hardware devices ranging from cameras, to smart bulbs, to robot vacuums!Oversaw the development of business critical IAP subscription and growth initiatives, resulting in 3x increase in monthly recurring revenue.Led an overhaul of the company's Android and iOS development processes, including a migration of nearly 100 repositories from GitLab to GitHub, CI transition from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, and implementation of new source code management strategies. This required coordination and training of 70+ app developers distributed globally across numerous internal and external engineering teams.Received a company award in recognition of cross-functional collaboration and impact.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managed a small four-person team of mobile engineers in support of Whistle's smart pet tracking devices. Our team was responsible for the full SDLC of Whistle's native iOS and Android apps, including new hardware launches, partner integrations, feature rollouts, and subscription bundles.Developed a comprehensive engineering competency matrix/career ladder and partnered with HR and other engineering leaders to implement this new standard across all software teams.Modernized Whistle's mobile apps by introducing feature flags, A/B experiments, and debugging tools into the tech stack. These improvements led to better data-driven product decisions, increased sprint velocity, tighter dev-QA collaboration, and reduced production risks.Awarded a prize for creativity and innovation in Whistle's annual Hack Week, for demonstrating a working "Doggie Dates" Android project, which paired nearby dogs based on breed, size, and ML-suggested persona.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed a seven-person team responsible for Foursquare’s Pilgrim SDK. The team consisted of geographically distributed backend and mobile engineers, including a contract team based in Africa.Within the first months, stabilized the engineering team and brought the previous attrition rate down to zero. Developed an inclusive and positive team culture by focussing on open communications, routine feedback, internal training, structured career development plans, and cross-functional growth paths.Responsibilities included coaching, mentoring, technical planning and design, project management, people management, and occasional hands on coding.

New York, Ny, Us

Senior engineer and tech lead supporting Foursquare’s City Guide and Swarm Android apps.Responsibilities included mentoring, interviewing, release management, CI/CD, feature development, Android SDK updates, Kotlin migrations, and architecture (MVVM).Recognized with an employee award for exemplifying company values.

Mclean, Va, Us

Senior engineer working on Capital One Mobile, an award-winning Android app with tens of millions of users, 4.6 average Play Store rating, and crash-free rate of 99.98%.Successfully delivered key projects across a wide range of feature areas, including app install attributions, paperless statements, custom UIs and shared components, user profiles, push notifications, deep links, accessibility, home screen widgets, etc.

Created RP Samara, a highly rated mobile telecom app, by leveraging technologies such as Android compatibility libraries, REST APIs, Realm, SQLite, Firebase, Node.js.Contributed to open source Android ​projects with bug fixes and feature enhancements related to custom views and async tasks.Top 5% ranked contributor on ​Stack Overflow (http://bit.ly/3FFZuSE) for sharing knowledge about Android SDK.Designed and developed web sites and applications for various clients across multiple CMS platforms (Joomla, WordPress, and SquareSpace) and custom LAMP stacks.

Back to school to pursue a degree

Stanford, Ca, Us

Supported multiple research programs covering education technology, professional development, and pedagogy.Worked on websites for the Knowledge Media Labs (KML) research program, which involved Drupal, Joomla, and LAMP based platforms.Created a JavaScript map application for the CASTL research program, using JQuery and Google Maps APIs.

Multiple QA jobs (mostly contract) ranging from 9 months to 3.5 years in duration, focussed on test automation, process improvement, and QA management.Job titles:• QA Manager• QA Lead• Sr. QA Engineer• QA EngineerSelect companies:• Genentech• Morgan Stanley• Charles Schwab• NEC Electronics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology

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