Martin Kristiansen
Founder of Ajour Software
Seal Beach, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2022 - Current
(building in stealth mode)
VP of Engineering
2021 - 2022
Director, Video Intelligence, AWS IVS/Twitch Video
2019 - 2021
Responsible for answering "what if?" and "why?" inside the Twitch video organization by building and managing: - The Applied Science Team: Creating models for realtime decision making, optimization, as well as forecasting, - The Data Engineering team: Building and maintaining data infrastructure, and data pipelines, - The Data Analytics: Supporting the product and business teams in making data-driven decisions with confidence.
Senior Engineering Manager, Video Distribution
2019 - 2019
- Manages the video mapping and video networking teams enabling Twitch's global video load balancing system. - Manages the ViewBot detection team, responsible for detecting non human viewers of Twitch video.
Twitch is a social video platform where gamers can broadcast, watch, and talk about video games.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Thrive Capital, Nelstone Ventures, Take-Two Interactive Software, WestSummit Capital, Alsop Louie Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Software Engineering Manager
2017 - 2018
I managed the team responsible for powering personalized user experiences, this involved participating in designing a federated data layer, and enabling my own team, as well as other teams in the organization to leverage this system. This enabled faster iteration, and empowered the rest of the organization to move faster by decoupling teams and enabling teams to move independently. My main focus was growing the skills and careers of my direct reports by making sure their projects were highly aligned with long term company priorities.
Principal Software Engineer
2017 - 2018
NerdWallet develops a financial platform to help people find the right credit cards and mortgage rates.
Raised $105,000,000.00 from Raison Wealth, Employee Stock Option Fund and MAK Ventures.
Staff Engineer
2016 - 2017
Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.
Raised $25,500,000.00 from Seven Peaks Ventures, AngelPad, Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, Aol Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Thomvest Ventures and Uncork Capital.
Principal Architect
2013 - 2016
* Principal Architect (2016 - present) * Director of Platform Infrastructure (2015 - 2016) * Erlang Engineer and API Development Lead (2013 - 2015): Continuous development of XMPP based services, NoSQL backend, optimizations for large, highly scalable distributed systems.
Director of Platform Infrastructure
2015 - 2016
Erlang Engineer and API Development Lead
2013 - 2015
Continuous development of XMPP based services, NoSQL backend, optimizations for large, highly scalable distributed systems.
Programmer
2008 - 2010
Programmer on http://www.aarhusbylight.dk/index.html Lead programmer on MejlbyStenen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdaT3TDbmSA
Software Engineer
2009 - 2009
GPGPU programming mainly C++ and nVIDIA CUDA based analytics tools
Programmer
2008 - 2009