Summary
Annemarie Ketola is a Technical Program Manager and former aerospace engineer with 11 years of experience blending mobile engineering, program leadership, and product-focused delivery across startups and large enterprises. She has shipped iOS (and cross-platform Android) features at Best Buy, Breez, Microsoft, and Amazon while driving testability, ADA compliance, and unit-test culture to raise quality and efficiency. Her background at Boeing and Columbia University grounds her in rigorous systems thinking and thermal/flight hardware analysis, which she applies to complex technical programs and cross-functional coordination. A founder and former travel blogger, she brings entrepreneurial curiosity and user research chops—having run dozens of customer interviews and design sprints—to inform product decisions. Comfortable learning new stacks quickly (e.g., Android, DJI/IBM Watson integrations), she excels at translating customer needs into pragmatic, testable solutions. Based in Seattle, she thrives in fast-paced, pivoting environments where collaboration and creative problem solving drive impact.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Music Minor, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Music Minor at Michigan Technological University
Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
English, Finnish, French, Spanish