Interim position where I lead a team responsible for an emerging declarative infrastructure platform that serves as the basis for a developer platform, and a unified way of managing platform resources. Part of my assignment also includes coaching of leaders in the platform org how to build and cultivate an effective product development culture focusing on platform and infrastructure products. Additionally, I lead the creation of the product strategy for the relatively new department I am part of. Mixed role that spans many teams across the broader platform org.

Environment: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Java, .NET Core

Interim position where I supported the leadership team in several tech related areas, combining responsibilities of CTO, Architect, and Operations Lead. Technology leadership and management focusing on org design, tech and competency strategy, process and delivery improvements. Architecture responsibilities focusing on architecture principles, patterns, governance and delivery enablement of the next generation web platform. Operations responsibilities focusing on reliability, performance, observability and incident management.

Environment: Azure, C#, .NET Core

Product lead for the Cloud Storage Product Area in Spotify's Platform team responsible for the storage and database portfolio that enable R&D teams to safely and effectively build and deploy stateful workloads to serve Spotify customers worldwide. Managed a global team of senior product managers with a relentless focus on developer productivity and happiness while balancing reliability, performance and cost.

I was also strategy lead for a number of large-scale platform productivity and business continuity initiatives impacting all developers at the company.

Environment: GCP, AWS, Bigtable, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Java, Python, Kubernetes

Product manager in two Platform teams responsible for the storage and database portfolio focusing on developer productivity, reliability, performance and cost.

During this period I was also involved in two other Platform teams responsible for configuration management and the foundation for our backend services, focusing on developer productivity for backend engineers.

Environment: GCP, AWS, Bigtable, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Java, Python, Kubernetes

I led the effort of productizing the cloud service offer to improve developer productivity and happiness, including product strategy, roadmap, operational concerns, compliance, quality assurance etc.

One part was a governance model to allow development teams to get access to the cloud provider (AWS) with a feature baseline including SSO, aggregated billing, logging, policy & auditing, VPN connectivity to the data center.

In addition, we also acted as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team with a mission to provide world-class reliability to the onboarded services hosted on the cloud platform.

Environment: AWS, Kubernetes, Networking

I led the effort of productizing the backend messaging service offer to improve developer productivity and happiness, including product strategy, roadmap, operational concerns, compliance, quality assurance etc.

The service was based on the Solace messaging platform. As a part of the packaging I also architected and developed an infrastructure-as-code framework (written in Python), processes and a governance model to allow development teams to self-service resources and application level messaging configuration.

Environment: Solace (Appliance & VMR), Python, Golang, Networking, SAN

Sysarb's vision is to help its customers achieve workplace equality. I was product and technology advisor and part of the management team.

Environment: AWS, Azure, .NET

I led the engineering teams, product managers, UX, system integrators and test teams. Also part of the executive team with responsibility for product & company strategy.

Environment: iOS, Android, JavaScript, .NET, AWS, Azure

I managed the native mobile apps product suite consisting of four apps. Two consumer facing (Android & iOS) and two for merchants and couriers.

Development was done in two teams that I managed, one team was co-located and one team distributed over two continents.

Environment: iOS, Android, Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin

System architect and developer of three iOS apps, targeting customers, merchants and couriers.

Environment: Objective-C, Swift, Storyboard, MVVM

Full service agency that developers and designs digital experiences.

I was a systems architect and engineer responsible for establishing and evolving sound development and architectural practices across internal and external projects. Involved in countless projects in a number of industries, e.g. media, e-commerce, tourism to name a few.

Highly involved as a software engineer and team lead. Advocate of agility in the software process with a leading role as the company transitioned to more effective methods of product development.

Environment: Java, Objective-C, Scala, Python, Ruby, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, JavaScript, Linux, AWS

Solution architect and consultant specializing on enterprise Java applications based on JBoss or WebSphere. Projects were conducted with customers mainly from government, military and insurance industries.

Responsible for establishing architectural guidelines within the company. Instructor on a number of Sun Microsystems’s Enterprise Java courses such as FJ-310 and SL-351.

Environment: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, JavaEE, WebSphere, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, Scrum, RUP

Software developer on the Roxen Editorial Portal product, a web based multichannel publishing tool aimed at the media market.

Environment: Pike, C, Linux, MySQL, XSLT, Scrum

Developer and Movex ERP system consultant, working closely with customers designing to implement custom solution ranging from simpler integrations to entire application suites. Deep understanding of the IBM iSeries platform gained through consultancy and teaching of topics such as Linux on iSeries, iSeries LPAR (Logical partitioning) and SQL.

Environment: Java, JavaScript, iSeries, OS/400, DB2, Movex

Master’s thesis entitled 3G IPv6 Node Emulator that includes application design and implementation of a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) with IPv6 support. This node is to be used for 3G end-to-end terminal testing. Implementation conducted in C/C++ and Python under a *BSD, Linux and Solaris environment. Work also involves modifications to the FreeBSD kernel and IPv6 stack.

Environment: C, C++, Linux, FreeBSD

Part-time job teaching programming (C, C++, SQL and Visual Basic) to high school students.

Environment: C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic

Part-time job managing core and customer networks. Network infrastructure configuration, monitoring and operations.

Environment: Solaris, Linux, Cisco, Juniper