Albert Nazander
Chief Product Officer at Meru Health
Helsinki, Mainland Finland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Nazander is a product and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building consumer and B2B web products, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Meru Health after co-founding and scaling the company as CTO. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (React/React Native, Node.js, SQL, Java) with strategic product ownership, service design and measurable clinical outcomes in digital mental health. His background in industrial engineering and management from Aalto University informs a systems-level approach to innovation, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing. Albert has shipped UI-focused open-source contributions to popular projects like react-native-gifted-chat, reflecting a keen eye for UX detail and front-end polish. He’s fluent in English, Russian and Finnish and has a track record of launching marketplaces, IoT challenges and high-impact pilot programs inside large organizations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who bridges developers, designers and business stakeholders to turn research-backed ideas into scalable products.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMaster of Science Industrial Engineering and Management, Master of Science Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto UniversityMSc Industrial Engineering and Management, MSc Industrial Engineering and Management at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, Russian, Finnish
Github Skills (8)
component-development10
uid10
javascript10
react-native10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react9
mobile-development8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
💬 The most complete chat UI for React Native
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the UI of the `react-native-gifted-chat` repository. Their changes focused on enhancing the chat interface's functionality and user experience. Specifically, they worked on features like modifying send button color, adding a flag to control the loading of messages, enabling automatic return key behavior, and ensuring the chat view scrolls to the bottom after sending a message. They also addressed a minor style issue in the message component.
react-nativechat-uichatreact
alizbazar/interactive-cli
Jan 2017 - May 2020
Making it easy to create interactive command line scripts in Node.js
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
command-line-toolnode-jsjavascriptnodejsterminal
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