A collection of projects, talks, and tools from over the years. Some are polished products, others are weekend experiments, and a few are just fond memories with a one-liner description.
Team Projects
Also known as the day job
- Treamer - AI-powered career platform for frontline workers
- As CTO since 2021, I contribute to pretty much everything engineering-related: from product to processes to people to code.
- Tech buzzwords: SpringBoot, Kotlin, Java, MongoDB, ShapeUp, a bit of Elixir-Phoenix
- Lumoa - Turning customer feedback into actionable insights (“Analyze NPS feedback to figure out what could actually move it up”)
- I was a lead developer, making the core product work.
- Tech buzzwords: Kubernetes, Groovy, Grails
- DreamBroker - A company focused on secure communication
- I can’t share details except that I was a Product Manager and products were indeed being built. Not a single failure and not a single (or maybe almost not a single?) iteration without shippable code IIRC.
- Buzzwords: NDA
- Whole Yandex.Mail service and Mail.ru mobile apps
- Just a year, without much lasting impact, though plenty of learning about personal limits and preferences.
- At Yandex, I briefly managed the entire Yandex.Mail service and learned that leading a 100+ person distributed team in a challenging environment is tough indeed. I didn’t contribute much to anything long-term there. The biggest takeaway was understanding my own management-related limits and where I wanted to go next.
- At Mail.ru, I managed the mobile apps but didn’t contribute much beyond tactical. I did learn exactly how long I can work in 24/7 mode though.
- On the bright side, during this period we got featured by the App Store (or was it Google Play?), and my actions did contribute to it - though less than the developers doing the actual coding.
- ThingLink - Digital Learning for the Real World (interactive images and VR)
- This was fun! Our product created impressive interactive experiences across mobile apps and browsers (including IE6!).
- The mobile app I closely managed was featured in the App Store / Google Play at least once (twice?) and appeared on a special App Store education page.
- The product has since grown into an even more impressive AI-enabled interactive learning solution. Back in my day at some point, I was writing roughly half or half+ of the web-related code, plus managed the subcontracted development of our apps.
- Nokia, Carbide Application Designer
- I was a product manager. We built an awesome design and maintenance tool for next-generation UI. We managed to roll it out to dozens of teams (while they didn’t have to use it!). It was supposed to go public, but then the whole platform got canceled.
- Nokia - Where I was fortunate to develop some unusual software
- My biggest memory: my very first task was integrating text-to-speech ringtones-the phone would speak the caller’s name to you. In 2004. In dozens of languages. With understandable quality.
- I also helped introduce Agile to our part of the company well before the organization-wide decision to adopt it.
- And some other day-job projects too old to list here
Solo and Lead Projects
Also known as side projects, projects with friends, and sometimes small day-job initiatives
Web stuff
- Highlighter Extension - Ctrl+Shift+F for Chrome that can search for many terms at once, even in collapsed paragraphs, with matches shown right in the extension badge.
- For people searching for the same terms across many pages: recruiters, researchers, and students who need to quickly spot “Machine Learning” or “AI” or “Java” in resumes.
- For developers scanning web logs for “WARN” and “ERROR” and “ThisSuspiciousClass” simultaneously.
- Install it from the Chrome Web Store
- To be continued
Jolla / Sailfish OS stuff
- To be continued
MeeGo apps
- To be continued
And some more
- To be continued
Work history and career details live on the About page.