Taneli Otala

Current

CTO at Atomic Labs, Inc.

Past

VP Engineering at Jaxtr
VP Technology at Various, Inc.
CTO at MySQL AB

CTO, VP eng at SenSage, Inc
VP Eng, CTO at Verano
VP Eng at Zambeel
Sr Dir Engineering at Oracle
Director of Engineering at GlobalCenter
VP Eng at Alcom Corp
CEO, President, Founder at Otasoft

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Taneli Otala’s Summary

engineering management, engineering processes, software development lifecycle, sw/hw/systems cmm, software/systems architecting, software/systems design, mathematical algorithms & methods, encryption algorithms, parallel systems, intellectual property, patents, open source software

Taneli Otala’s Specialties:

networked software & protocols, distributed & scalable, real time, security, encryption, server, operating system, rtos, parallel processing

Taneli Otala’s Experience

VP Engineering

Jaxtr

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)

VoIP telephony with Social Networking.
VP Technology

Various, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

September 2006 — July 2007 (11 months)

- Technology staff of over 100
- Development, operations, layout, graphics, community
- 24 Million active customers, 100k+ on-line any hour of day
- 700 domains
- 100+ features released every 2 week release cycle
- Scale-out of 300 MySQL servers in LAMP environment
CTO

MySQL AB

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)
CTO, VP eng

SenSage, Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

November 2002 — January 2006 (3 years 3 months)
VP Eng, CTO

Verano

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 10 months)

Managed Development, QA, Docs; 40 engineers in Sunnyvale/CA, Calgary/AB and Mumbai
Verano had two product lines -- SCADA and B2B integration
Technologies: C/C++, Java, RTAP, TCP/IP, Parallel/distributed processing, networking, SOAP, XML
VP Eng

Zambeel

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2000 — February 2001 (9 months)

Managing Development (Hardware + Software), QA, Project Management; 86 engineers
Zambeel developed distributed massive storage system; based on Linux, C/C++, Java, Apache, NFS, Samba, Oracle, BDB, JBOD, RAID
Sr Dir Engineering

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

March 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 4 months)

iFS -- Internet File System
Director of Engineering

GlobalCenter

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

May 1994 — March 1999 (4 years 11 months)
VP Eng

Alcom Corp

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1990 — May 1994 (4 years 5 months)
CEO, President, Founder

Otasoft

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 1983 — January 1990 (6 years 2 months)