Career Profile:

Dynamic international 10+ year career mixing software engineering, consulting and software engineering management. Shipped several customized and off-the-shelf internationalized products. Excellent knowledge of web standards, and how to write secure software.

Technical Skills:

Object-oriented programming, Writing secure software, Large-scale software development, Open Source software development

Python, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, Unix shell scripts, make, SQL, XPCOM, CGI, Web Services, XML, XHTML, DOM, CSS, PKI, SSL/TLS

Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, Firebug, CVS, Subversion, Windows, Linux, Macintosh

Professional Experience:

SpikeSource, Redwood City, CA
Senior Staff Engineer	2008-present

SpikeSource creates business-ready open source solutions.

Open Source Applications Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Development Manager	2003-2008

Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is a non-profit organization behind Chandler, a personal information manager (PIM) written mostly in Python. Primary security engineer, and manager of small distributed team of 1-3 engineers and interns.

• Added cryptographic services, including SSL/TLS support and password manager, to Chandler.
• Took over maintenance of M2Crypto, the most complete Python wrapper for OpenSSL.
• Wrote one of the first test frameworks for the Cosmo CalDAV server using Python doctests.
• Created and maintained continuously running Chandler performance tests and reporting infrastructure. Profiled code to find and optimize badly performing parts. Used Valgrind and other tools to find and fix memory leaks.
• Installed and maintained LXR and Bonsai, and maintained Tinderbox2 server and clients. These tools provide web-based, cross-referenced, and queryable views to the source code, CVS/Subversion activity and automated build and test results.
• Acted both as manager of build/release and QA teams as well as the build/release engineer, debugging build problems and creating releases.
• Hired engineers and participated in creating position descriptions, doing phone and face-to-face interviews.

Netscape Communications Corporation, Mountain View, CA
Technical Manager, Software Development	2002-2003
Senior Software Engineer	2000-2002

Contributed to the team that created Netscape 6.0 - 7.1 browsers and the award-winning Mozilla browser. Owner of the Mozilla XML module. Drove security work of Netscape browsers, and managed global team of 6-10 engineers and interns who worked on web standards and browser security. Consistently exceeded expectations.

• Improved browser security by organizing security reviews, using tools like Flawfinder to find and eliminate security vulnerabilities and motivating engineers to the importance of security issues during a time when the company's future was uncertain.
• Improved design and code quality by acting as a reviewer, which required rapidly analyzing thousands of lines of code written by other engineers and providing constructive feedback on how to make it better.
• Implemented XPointer, FIXptr and simple XLink, brought XHTML support on par with HTML, improved XMLHttpRequest object support from proof-of-concept state to one of the most useful features in the browser in a system of over 3 million of lines of mostly C/C++ and JavaScript code and rapidly changing APIs.
• Tracked both personal and team schedules against changing product definitions, provided timely feedback on impossible schedules, evaluated whether schedules could be met with more resources or if features needed to be cut.
• Represented Netscape in WWW Consortium's (W3C) XML Linking Working Group.

Citec Software Ltd, Vaasa, Finland
Software Developer	1998-2000
SGML Consultant	1996-1998

Citec is one of the largest consultant companies in Europe specializing in technical documentation. Key contributor in team that produced software and services used by world leaders in aerospace, telecommunications, defense, elevator and escalator industry.

• Designed and implemented database extensions to Multidoc Pro SGML browser using C++, MFC, SQL and ODBC.
• Designed and implemented simple XLink, XPointer and HyTime links in DocZilla SGML/XML/HTML browser that enable sophisticated hyperlinks in structured documents.
  
• Designed and implemented customized Mozilla-based applications using XUL, JavaScript and C++ according to strict requirements, specifications and schedules.
  
• Improved robustness by using Rational Quantify and Purify, and Numega Bounds Checker to find and fix slow code or otherwise disrupting program conditions.
  
• Project and software engineering management for teams of up to 5 persons and projects lasting up to 3 years.
• Interfaced directly with customers to gather product requirements and design and implement software and other products based on the information, integrated third party tools to customer workflow, provided customer training and support.
  

University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Teaching Assistant	1996

Supervised students taking C/C++ Programming with their assignments and homework.

Independent consultant, Finland
Software Developer	1993-1996

Designed and implemented several small-scale programs and parts of programs in short-term projects producing Web and Windows applications using languages such as ANSI C, Perl and Visual Basic.

Professional Affiliations:

Mozilla Security Group. The duties of this group include fixing security vulnerabilities in a timely manner, improving the overall security of the Mozilla applications and informing concerned parties about security issues. From 2002 to present.

Mozilla super-reviewers. This is a group of recognized strong developers whose mission is to insure that only the highest quality code gets integrated into the Mozilla suite of applications. From 2002 to 2004. 

Publications and Presentations:

Author of "Debugging Mozilla on Windows FAQ", 2001.

Organized and participated in the jury of "Design Patterns in Mozilla Contest", 1999.

Co-author of "Extending Mozilla or How To Do The Impossible". This is the first paper written by non-Netscape employees describing what the Mozilla code is and how to tackle the code. Held a tutorial with the other author in San Jose, CA at the XTech'99 conference, 1999.

Education:

MS (Information Technology), University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2000.

Computer Science Diploma, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 1995.