Mari Joller
AI ML Product Leader at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMari Joller is an AI/ML product leader and founder with nine years of experience turning spoken audio into product-ready intelligence, currently leading engineers, applied scientists, and computational linguists for Amazon Music Podcasts. She has a strong entrepreneurial track record—founding Snackable AI and earlier voice-first startups that were acquired or integrated into larger platforms—and a history of shipping consumer-facing audio and hearables products. Mari blends hands-on full-stack engineering (contributions to game projects and UI/UX work on open-source stations) with strategic product leadership across startups and global firms like Nokia and Virgin Mobile. She is fluent in building intent-discovery and audio understanding pipelines that scale to millions of users, and she repeatedly proves an ability to take nascent voice experiences to market. Based in New York, she pairs an MBA in entrepreneurship with international perspective from Middlebury and early Beijing experience, which informs her product sensibilities. A less obvious strength: she equally bridges low-level engineering details and high-level business strategy, making her adept at both feature-level shipping and company-level exits.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., International Politics & Economics, Chinese, B.A., International Politics & Economics, Chinese at Middlebury CollegeMBA, Enterpreneurship, General Management, MBA, Enterpreneurship, General Management at Harvard Business School
English, Estonian, Chinese, French, Russian, German
Github Skills (14)
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gameobject10
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object-design10
p1210
game-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
dm10
content-management9
user-interface8
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
discordia-space/CEV-Eris
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Death is our destination
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 48 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mari contributed to multiple aspects of the game. They implemented new content such as lunchboxes, medical belts, and various hairstyles, showing a focus on game object and character customization. Their work extended to UI and interface changes, as well as adjustments to internal game systems such as item interactions and inventory. The user demonstrated proficiency in modifying existing game logic and adding new features across diverse modules.
spacestation13dreammakergamedeathss13
sojourn-13/sojourn-station
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 27 days
Contributions summary:Mari's contributions primarily revolve around adding and modifying game mechanics and user interface elements. This includes fixing dart gun sprites, modifying the chemistry catalog, implementing new items in the traitors' uplink, and adding new sniper sprites. They also worked on bug fixes related to borg and AI functionality.
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