Morten Petersen
Founder at Otato
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarMorten Petersen is a seasoned founder and product designer with 14 years of experience building consumer and developer-facing products from concept to scale. As founder of Otato and a former Staff Product Designer at Google, he led early efforts on Android Wear, Google Maps directions, and experimental Area 120 projects, blending product leadership with hands-on design and engineering. He ships delightful, pragmatic tools—evident in open-source projects like an all-in-one Android/iOS device utility and a simplicity-focused text editor where he implemented core features across UI, mobile recording, and language tooling. Based in Zurich, he combines an investor’s eye with a maker’s curiosity, often exploring augmented reality, ML-driven interfaces, and contextual UIs. Notably, his background spans startups and large tech (from founding Imity to contributing to Google X), giving him rare fluency across design, mobile engineering, and product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Danish, English
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Github Skills (23)
mobile-development10
scripting10
user-interface10
cocoa10
script10
android10
sh10
swift10
shell10
text-editing10
web-application9
develop9
ios9
application9
graphical-user-interface8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mortenjust/cleartext-mac
Nov 2015 - Jan 2020
A text editor that will help you write clearer and simpler
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 89 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Morten primarily contributed to the development of the Simpler text editor application. Their work included implementing UI features such as light/dark theme switching, language selection using a popup menu, and text size adjustment. They also focused on integrating a word-checking feature utilizing a custom dictionary to identify and handle complex words, with the option to remove them. The user also made modifications to the application's UI, adding shake animation effects.
text-editor
mortenjust/androidtool-mac
Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
One-click screenshots, video recordings, app installation for iOS and Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:17 releases, 85 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Morten primarily contributed to the development of the AndroidTool-mac application, which focuses on one-click screenshots, video recordings, and app installation. Their commits reveal modifications to the application's core functionality, including the implementation of Android-specific features such as screenshot capture and screen recording. They worked on integrating iOS device support for similar features and improved the user interface for the application. The user also implemented installation and launching of APK files to the Android device.
androidios
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