Heikki Toivonen's Resume

Heikki Toivonen

Santa Clara, California, USA
Email: My first name at heikkitoivonen.net

Technical Skills:

Languages and standards: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Unix shell scripts, make, SQL, NoSQL, XHTML, PKI, SSL/TLS, REST, JSON

Frameworks and applications: Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy, Twisted, jQuery, MySQL, SQLite, Memcached, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy

Tools and OSes: AWS, CDK, Docker, Eclipse, Git, Gerrit, Subversion, Jenkins, Jira, Bugzilla, Trac, Linux, Windows, Macintosh, Android

Professional Experience:

Lab126 is an Amazon subsidiary working mainly on device software and devices like Echo and FireTV.

Designed improvements to development processes that affected hundreds of developers, project managers and other stakeholders. Designed and implemented related tooling changes.
Designed, developed and maintained an internal tool using AWS Aurora, SQLAlchemy, Flask and Python.
Implemented a public serveless API with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and TypeScript, using S3, API Gateway and Cloudfront.
Maintained a Ruby on Rails internal application.
Interviewed more than 100 people for engineering roles, and mentored more junior engineers, including interns.

Mobile search. Switched to devops role in early 2015.

Scaled and optimized Python Flask application.
Maintained and automated Docker-based Jenkins test and deployment pipelines for hundreds of git repositories and applications.

Egnyte provides cloud storage and sharing services for businesses ("Dropbox for businesses"). Worked as the technical lead for sync, using mostly Python.

Scaled the sync system to tens of thousands of simultaneously syncing clients against three data centers, where many customers were syncing over 10 million file datasets of several terabytes in size.
Optimized sync algorithm, API, and implementation on client and server side to meet and exceed the speed of competitors.
Designed and implemented event polling sync using Cassandra NoSQL storage, which brought sync latency from 15 minutes to one minute.
Designed various sync related APIs and algorithms for other engineers to implement, reviewed code and mentored other engineers, QA and support.

SpikeSource helped companies build, test, package, distribute and maintain software products. One of the engineering leads.

Created, extended and maintained Pylons, CherryPy, CakePHP and Java applications.
Designed RESTful API for a machine provisioning system, and implemented client side library for it in Python.
Improved development processes and tools for the whole engineering department, improving application quality and developer productivity; reviewed most Python code written in the company to follow best Python and engineering practices.

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.
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.
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.

Contributed to the team that created Netscape 6.0 - 7.1 and the Mozilla browser. Owner of the 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.

Designed and implemented customized Mozilla-based applications using XUL, JavaScript, C++ and SQL according to strict requirements, specifications and schedules. Designed and implemented several programs and parts of programs producing Web and Windows applications using languages such as ANSI C, Perl and Visual Basic. Teaching assistant for a university C/C++ Programming course.

Education:

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

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