Location-based game startup with multi-million dollar funding.

Start-up leadership role with a technology-focused team. Recruiting new team members.

Leading backend technology development. Developing backend systems for MMORPG style mobile games. Enables creation of multiplayer games on top of real-world maps and locations. Possibility for players to see each other and interact with the world.

I developed a global map generation system using Apache Spark, based on massive OpenStreetmap dataset.

• RESTful API development (Clojure, Node.js)
• Redis
• Datomic
• Various AWS services
• Apache Spark
• Web Frontend development

Lead backend systems developer for a gamified mobile chat application.

• Natural Language Processing system development (Clojure)
• RESTful API development (Node.js, Clojure)
• Various AWS services
• Docker
• CoreOS
• Elixir
• Erlang

Our team successfully developed a web application customer service system for a large listed company client.

Tailored full stack web application development. Automatic testing, continuous integration.

• Clojure
• ClojureScript
• RESTful API development
• HTML/CSS
• React
• PostgreSQL
• Docker

I co-founded the company Grey Area together with three other co-founders.

We raised over USD 2 million from international VC funds, including Index Ventures. I was the Chief Engineer, doing both server and client side development of demanding online multiplayer games.

2014 Puzzle Bandits, Client and server programmer

I developed the main game client logic and AI using C# language on the Unity 3D engine. I developed various server features using Python and Erlang programming languages. Database related development using CouchBase. Amazon AWS operations tasks.

2013 Game prototyping, HTML5 developer

Development and design of game prototypes using CoffeeScript, Javascript and node.js.

2010-2014 Game metrics analysis

I did metrics analysis using Map-Reduce with Hadoop ande Python. Amazon AWS dev-ops tasks. The game server data was transformed using Hadoop, and inserted into a database for further querying and processing. Data analysis tools included Python, pandas, Tableau and excel.

2013 Game of Tanks, Server programmer

In the Game of Tanks title, I developed real-time player vs. player features server-side, using Python and Erlang programming languages.

2013 Tank Legions, Server and GIS programmer

I was server-side developer implementing and designing various game features using Python and Erlang programming languages. I developed a global map generation system using Hadoop and Python, based on third party map data.

2009 – 2012 Shadow Cities, Server and Client programmer

I developed a pattern recognition algorithm for the Shadow Cities client using C++. The algorithm is able to recognise hand drawn ‘runes’ from mobile screen. I developed Shadow Cities game logic on server-side using the Erlang programming language. Various database related tasks using CouchBase and MongoDB.

2008 – 2009 Ericsson Sweden Stockholm, Team Leader

As an agile feature team lead, I did requirements analysis, design and implementation tasks of features for Session Border Gateway Controller node. The language and platform used for the tasks was Erlang/OTP.

2008 Ericsson Finland, Software Designer and Instructor

I successfully transferred Session Border Gateway Controller product maintenance from Ericsson Finland to Wipro Technologies in Hyderabad, India. The task included training of Wipro engineers and maintenance of the product. 2005 – 2008 Ericsson Finland, Software Designer I worked as a software designer at LM Ericsson. The main product was Session Border Gateway Controller node (SGC). I worked through the whole development cycle in various roles, mainly in implementation and design, but doing requirements analysis. The development was done in C++ language, and the environment was Linux based. I implemented various components in the node, including TCP/IP networking and routing functionalities.

2004 – 2005 Ericsson Finland, Thesis Worker

I did my M.Sc. thesis at LM Ericsson. The topic of the thesis was Automatic Telecommunications Network Node State Monitoring. In the work, I used machine learning algorithms to detect network attacks.

2004 Summer Ericsson Finland, Trainee

I automated the system test environment of Ericsson Media Gateway Controller. In the task I used Java programming language, Solaris OS, various UNIX tools and proprietary third party testing tools.

• C++
• Erlang
• Software design
• Software testing
• Telecommunications

Software testing for Nokia mobile phones.