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JULIA FLAMENT-WALLIN

Amsterdam,NH

Summary

Value driven Engineering Leader with proven ability to build fantastic teams solving complex problems for customers. Strong technical background with 11+ years of experience in the intersection between Software Engineering and Applied AI.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineering Manager

TomTom
Amsterdam, Netherlands
04.2024 - Current
  • Leading the team(s) responsible for the creation and publishing of all HD road signs, traffic lights and other road furniture at global scale, developing deep learning Computer Vision detection and classification models from LiDAR and Image sources, ss well as tooling for said models (annotation, classification, QC, feature creation).

Software Engineering Manager

TomTom
Amsterdam
08.2023 - 03.2024
  • Led the team in the Platform Engineering organization responsible for creating and maintaining a platform for consistency checks, rule management, data validation for Value Streams and overall incremental automatic map quality assurance.
  • Led a team of ~a dozen Software Engineers and data Scientists through processing data from various sources, creating knowledge elements and publishing millions of signs and Traffic Lights to the map.

Software Engineering Manager

TomTom
Remote
03.2023 - 07.2023
  • Led the team consisting of ~a dozen Software Engineers and Data Scientist, processing and publishing traffic signs and lights to the map

Managing AI Engineer

Capgemini
Oslo, Norway
10.2021 - 02.2023
  • Engineering Manager for a team of ~8 Data Scientists and AI Engineers focusing specifically on Semantic, Language Technologies, Knowledge Graphs and Graph technologies
  • DevOps Team Lead for a renewable energy client
  • Developing and maintaining analytical products and their Cloud Data Platform on Azure levering principles from Mesh Data Architecture
  • Contributor to a Knowledge Graph project combining large publicly available data sets by serializing Geographical data to an RDF graph to ultimately be able to do genealogy and other reasoning.

Senior Software Engineer

Haptiq AS
Oslo
11.2020 - 10.2021
  • Tech Lead building the back-end in AWS thus taking the product from standalone VR applications to having authentication and cloud storage, a CMS system and ultimately a VR platform SaaS.
  • Co-Architect, ScrumMaster and hands-on developer in project for The Norwegian Defense transforming various GIS data such as height maps to generate realistic digital twin landscapes for a VR Mission Planning system.
  • ScrumMaster and Agile coach for several dev teams, front- and back-end across Norway, Serbia and The Philippines.

Technical Project Manager

Inmeta Consulting AS
Oslo
01.2020 - 10.2020
  • Managed the implementation of Office 365, incl Teams and intranet, for Siva driving progress by facilitating communication between stakeholders and removing obstacles; assisted with architecture design and testing.

BI & AI Consultant

Inmeta Consulting AS
Oslo
04.2017 - 12.2019
  • Created BI solutions for customers to help them utilize data and information to gain insight by leading customer dialogues and workshops to inform solution architecture development
  • Built environmental test reporting for Avinor, an airport operation company, by collecting requirements, creating the extract, transform, load (ETL) job, designing and implementing a tabular data model, and creating end-user reports
  • Led the creation of an agriculture data platform for Tine SA, overseeing 6 delivery teams of 60 developers and domain experts, the establishment of technical requirements, and the designing of the solution architecture and platform in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Facilitated the creation of new financial tools for Inmeta utilizing Power BI, leading Scrum teams in analyzing the legacy solution, specifying requirements, and developing and setting up infrastructure.

Data Scientist

Dunnhumby
Oslo
11.2015 - 03.2017
  • Conducted ad-hoc analysis and segmentation to provide strategic recommendations for a joint venture with Coop, a supermarket retail chain; conducted issue root cause analysis and provided insight into consumer behavior
  • On the team creating and maintaining a Recommender System for Norway's first personalized coupon program collaborating with a 15+ people team to segment and analyze customer behavior on several metrics leveraging Python, Jupyter, Oracle SQL, Excel, etc
  • To write, run, test, and tune the system for accuracy
  • Spearheaded the migration of Coop's coupon program from SAS to Python, managing the development, testing, and deployment
  • Produced a customized shopping cart report for Coca Cola quarterly to identify small and large shopping carts based on both their and global definitions using Oracle SQL and Excel.

BI Analyst & Developer

Modern Times Group
Oslo
04.2014 - 09.2015
  • Generated commercial break forecasts for 4 TV channels to inform the sales strategy of the salesforce and the strategic planning of media planners
  • Utilized the Database Management System (DBMS) to make, maintain, and query databases; used MS SQL Server Management Studio and MS Visual Studio to build OLAP cubes and MS Reporting Services to create automated reports
  • Maximized revenue by creating new tools and visualizations to provide management, sales, and media planning with data tracking sales and inventory
  • Identified millions of dollars' worth of commercial space to sell by tweaking the algorithm for calculating commercial space at a critical time for the company.

Seminar Teacher

University of Oslo
Oslo
02.2012 - 12.2014
  • Served as a Seminar Teacher with approximately 300 students per seminar while working full-time
  • Taught 2 sections of INF1500 Introduction to Design, Use, Interaction, developing lesson plans to introduce students to interfaces and interactions, user surveys to identify needs, digital technology evaluations, and prototyping
  • Taught 3 sections of INF1050 Systems Development, teaching students methods and techniques for acquiring, analyzing, and specifying a system's requirements, designing software systems, and assessing processes and tools for software development
  • Taught 1 section of INF1510 User-Oriented Design, instructing students on how to account for the theory of use-oriented design and analyze their projects in relation to the theory, social sciences, and humanities.

Web Developer

Kitchen Agency
Oslo
12.2013 - 04.2014
  • Served in a web development capacity assisting both the company and its clients with creating and executing website concepts to aid in marketing and advertising the brand.

Intern

CFEngine
Oslo
02.2012 - 12.2014
  • Collaborated with the startup's CTO, co-founder, and author of the CFEngine language as well as teams in both Oslo and Palo Alto, California to develop interface concepts, visualizations, and prototypes to provide automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems.

Education

Exchange program - Computer Science

San Jose State University
San Jose, California
12-2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
12.2014

Skills

  • System Design & Architecture
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Team building & People Development
  • AI, Machine & Deep Learning (ML/DL)

Technology

General-purpose programming languages: Python, C#, Java, Lisp

Query languages and DBMS: Several dialects of SQL (relational DBs) and noSQL -Graph DBs (SPARQL)

Cloud: AWS, Azure

Web development: HTML, CSS, WordPress, The Semantic Tech stack

Human Computer Interaction: Data Gathering, Establishing requirements, Prototyping, Testing, Design Thinking, UX.

Software Engineering: Software Engineering Life Cycle (CDLC), Process methodologies, Git, DevOps.

Languages

Norwegian
First Language
English
Proficient
C2
French
Intermediate
B1
Dutch
Beginner (A1)
A1

Timeline

Senior Software Engineering Manager

TomTom
04.2024 - Current

Software Engineering Manager

TomTom
08.2023 - 03.2024

Software Engineering Manager

TomTom
03.2023 - 07.2023

Managing AI Engineer

Capgemini
10.2021 - 02.2023

Senior Software Engineer

Haptiq AS
11.2020 - 10.2021

Technical Project Manager

Inmeta Consulting AS
01.2020 - 10.2020

BI & AI Consultant

Inmeta Consulting AS
04.2017 - 12.2019

Data Scientist

Dunnhumby
11.2015 - 03.2017

BI Analyst & Developer

Modern Times Group
04.2014 - 09.2015

Web Developer

Kitchen Agency
12.2013 - 04.2014

Seminar Teacher

University of Oslo
02.2012 - 12.2014

Intern

CFEngine
02.2012 - 12.2014

Exchange program - Computer Science

San Jose State University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Oslo
JULIA FLAMENT-WALLIN