Samuel Otter
Senior Engineering Manager at King
Greater Uppsala Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolSamuel Otter is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12+ years of experience building teams and complex software systems, currently leading the machine learning platform organization at King. He combines deep hands-on technical skills—from low-level TensorFlow work to backend services—with a proven track record as a chief architect who shapes platform strategy and delivery. Samuel excels at bridging the big-picture product and organizational needs with low-level implementation details, keeping relevant individual-contributor skills while scaling teams. His background includes driving ML platform development at Peltarion and leading engineering teams at Klarna, giving him strong domain knowledge across ML, backend, and production systems. He is known for maintaining composure under pressure and focusing teams on the critical path to ship high-quality software. A lifelong builder (from LEGO to SimCity to production systems), he quickly learns new domains and turns that curiosity into pragmatic technical and organizational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Computer Engineering and Computer Science, MSc., Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Chalmers tekniska högskola
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (29)
klarna9
epl8
java-bindings8
logging7
node-server6
fluentnhibernate6
nhibernate6
stl6
sdk6
winforms6
gcc6
logger6
clojurescript5
slf4j5
java5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samuelotter/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
samuelotter/slang
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes in 22 days
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