Curriculum Vitae - Christian Kullander

Software Development, Cloud Computing and Photography.

Apple Maps

Overall architect for the Lifelog experience, an Android application with a backend running on AWS services (EC2/S3/DynamoDB/Kinesis/etc) with millions of users and lots of data.

Built and lead a small team in Sweden that was part of a global support organization within Blackberry, mostly dealing with software builds and infrastructure. We also supported one of the major components of the BlackBerry 10 platform and the team in Malmö working on it, with a very ambitious large-scale use of pre- and post-commit continuous integration using Jenkins and Gerrit.

Worked with the integration of TAT into RIM, especially around software development tools. Worked on the build environment, including setting up an extensive continuous integration system, for a major component of the BlackBerry 10 platform.

Creating a cloud based, highly scalable and flexible backend platform for future products and services. Working with Amazon AWS services such as EC2, S3 and SDB together with Python and Django running on CentOS based app servers on EC2. Web frontend using REST APIs, web based admin frontend based on Django with JQuery and JQuery UI. Lead architect and developer as well as scrum master for a small team working on the vertical stack from mobile phone client to backend.

After Vodafone acquired Wayfinder Systems early 2009 I kept the same responsibilites as before but added to them is being heavily involved in the different integration workstreams as well as designing, setting up and migrating to a new server cluster dedicated to Vodafone customers. At the end of 2009 the server development team almost doubled in size and my role became dedicated to being the line manager of the team and also the Scrum product owner of the LBS platform. Major tasks was high level estimation of features, architecting new functionality, release planning and coordination with the other Scrum teams within Location Services. I was also the line manager for the internal office IT department.

Responsible for the development team for the distributed LBS server platform written in C++ as well as the team responsible for implementing and maintaining our production Linux clusters running the LBS platform, web applications, billing system integrations etc. Principal architect for our overall server solution with requirements to be highly available and scalable. Hands-on work was mostly related to configuration management and complex system administration tasks.

A mix of software development and team lead responsibility for the team designing, implementing and running our production Linux clusters running the Wayfinder LBS platform, web applications, billing system integrations etc. Principal architect for our overall server solution that needs to be highly available and scalable.

I spent most of my time doing software development, mainly work on our distributed LBS platform written in C++ but also other development work in clients/frontends including web. I was responsible for the production Linux clusters running the server system, a role which also included documentation, technical contact for customers, 2nd/3rd line customer support, server deployment and training.

The first year at at Itinerary Systems (better known as Wayfinder after the name change in 2003) consisted mostly of sysadmin related work; Linux and Windows NT. Among the things I did was development and implementation of an unattended install of Windows NT Workstation including an update to Windows 2000 Professional. Done work on automated Linux installations (Red Hat based). Designed and implemented a client management system for doing automatic inventory and software updates. Also worked with: Internet Connection, DNS, Web servers (mostly Intranet, also developed most of the Intranet services), file servers, backup system, network infrastructure, phone system, etc.

I worked in the Infrastructure section of the central IT Department. The section performed day-to-day operations of the server and network environment, handled infrastructure development and 2nd/3rd line support, etc. I managed all UNIX platforms at the site (AIX, Solaris, Irix, Compaq Tru64). I was also involved with NT administration to some degree, mostly interoperability issues.