Markus Kauppila

Experience

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  Oulun lyseon lukio

  Sept 2009 - Nov 2011

  I maintained and developed several internal web services used by the staff and pupils. I worked closely with IT support staff and student administration team managing school's linux servers. I was a part-time employee during this time. I maintained and developed several internal web services used by the staff and pupils. I coordinated and implemented a CMS platform migration from the TYPO3 to Drupal 6. I worked closely with IT support staff and student administration team managing school's linux servers.

  • Web-developer & Administrator

    Aug 2010 - Nov 2011

  • Web-developer & Administrator

    Sept 2009 - Aug 2010
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  Google

  Jun 2011 - Sept 2011

  Google Summer of Code 2011 Student

  During the summer I worked on creating a testing framework and tests for Simple DirectMedia Layer (libSDL.org) which is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to peripherals and graphics hardware for game development.

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  Haave

  Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

  Software Developer

  I was a mobile developer working with 13 iOS projects and 3 Windows Phone projects. Usually I was involved from the first sketches until the release. In couple of cases, I took over the maintenance and further development responsibilities after the initial release from a previous developer.

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  Futurice

  Mar 2014 - Feb 2022

  As a tech lead / backend-focused full-stack developer, I have been working on various systems ranging from business-critical ERPs to large-scale e-commerce systems. I lead the technical discussions with the clients; design and architect the solutions and implement the needed back-end and front-end services as a part of multi-disciplined, self-organizing teams.I also have extensive experience working as a mobile developer, mainly for iOS. During the years, I have been involved in half a dozen international and domestic projects ranging from two-week gig to implement a proof of concept application to a long-term over 18-month commitment building mobile news service.I also help with pre-sales by figuring out technology solutions for various RFPs and participate in recruitment by leading technical interviews. Show less

  • Tech Lead / Senior Software Developer

    Jan 2017 - Feb 2022

  • Software Developer

    Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
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  Unity

  Feb 2022 - Oct 2024

  Senior Software Engineer

  Worked as a senior software engineer focusing on the backend services handling gamer profiles. The profiles were used in various ML models and other purposes within Unity Ads. The profile services were high traffic and high volume, business critical services handling over 16 billion gamer profiles. The main service handled over 150k requests per second and had 15+ terabytes of data in BigTable.Main Technologies: Go, Google Cloud Platform, BigTable, gRPC

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  Smartly

  Nov 2024 - now

  Senior Software Engineer