Tapani Otala
VP, Engineering at Tidepool.org
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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SeniorTapani Otala is a seasoned engineering and business executive with 13+ years of leadership experience building consumer products from embedded systems to cloud-native services. As VP of Engineering at Tidepool he blends hands-on coding with mission-driven product work on hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery, while prior roles at Samsung, Seagate, Amazon Lab126 and Adobe demonstrate deep expertise in large-scale cloud services, multimedia platforms, and cross-platform client libraries. He has led globally distributed teams of 60+ engineers and coordinated cross-functional programs of 150+ people, repeatedly turning ambiguous challenges into shipping products under aggressive timelines. Known for intentionally choosing unfamiliar technologies and markets, he combines strategy, team building and hands-on software architecture to bridge hardware, mobile, and cloud. Based in Waltham, MA, he remains an active coder and builds personal projects on GitHub for fun as well as professional growth.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
English, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, German
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Github Skills (54)
uploading10
backend10
api-platform9
diabetes9
identifiable9
passwords9
api9
nodejs9
react9
ocean8
mockups8
closed8
golang8
electron7
openapi7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tjotala/Articles
May 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
tjotala/lightroom-plugins
Feb 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
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