Per Groland
Engineering Manager at Akafugu Corporation
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolPer Groland is an engineering manager and multilingual technologist with 19 years of experience building embedded systems, mobile apps, full-stack web services and hardware products. He leads a machine-learning-focused engineering team at a Tokyo startup while co-running Akafugu, a hardware firm where he still designs boards and ships open-source firmware. His background spans low-level C/C++ firmware for microcontrollers and Linux, native Android/iOS SDKs, and cloud-deployed microservices (node.js, Python) using Docker, AWS and Azure. Comfortable in Japanese, Norwegian and Mandarin as well as English, he has shipped large-scale features for projects like the Wikia backend and has a record of hands-on manufacturing and CAD work uncommon for software leaders. Known as a quick learner and teacher, he combines product-minded engineering leadership with continued hands-on development across hardware and software stacks.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of OsloMandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at Fudan University
Norwegian, English, Japanese, Chinese, bad english
Github Skills (7)
php10
api10
apidoc10
mediawiki9
localization8
internationalization8
i18next8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Wikia/app
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Wikia Application Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:390 commits, 146 PRs, 610 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Per primarily worked on the backend of the Wikia application, focusing on the implementation of new features and enhancements. Their work included adding and modifying variables for the section editor feature, which involved changes to the Mercury API models using PHP. The user also addressed code convention style fixes and worked on supporting the Wikia-In-Your-Lang feature, and adding German and Spanish translations which involved changes to i18n files.
wikiphpwikiamediawiki
akafugu/akafugu_nixie_clock
Sep 2012 - Jun 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
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