Lars Finander
Staff Software Engineer at Samsung SmartThings
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Finander is a Staff Software Engineer with nearly two decades of experience building mobile platforms, IoT systems, and cloud-backed services. He combines low-level expertise—from camera drivers and firmware in C/C++ to Android frameworks—with modern backend work in Go and AWS powering smart home integrations like Alexa, Google Home and IFTTT. A certified Scrum Master, Lars has led and scaled cross-functional teams, blending hands-on development with process and delivery improvements. His career spans device OEMs, startups, and large platforms (SonyEricsson, Intel, Amazon/Lab126, Samsung SmartThings), giving him a rare full-stack perspective across drivers, frameworks, apps and servers. Colleagues praise his diplomacy in customer relations and his knack for translating ambiguous product needs into practical technical solutions. Based in Denver, he recently focused on the complexities of system integration in IoT, where his broad platform experience accelerates reliable, end-to-end deliveries.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer science and technology, Masters, Computer science and technology at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (17)
iot-application10
tuya10
smartapp10
handlers10
open-source10
upnp10
internet-of-things10
tasmota10
hue10
iot10
holochain10
smartthings10
zwave10
esp3210
zigbee10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
larsfinander/SmartThingsPublic
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:55 pushes, 90 branches in 1 year 7 months
larsfinander/solutions-sandbox
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
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