Jan Martin Borgersen
I'm a full-stack (but UI focused) software engineer and team leader with start-up management experience and a history of delivering high quality, scalable, consumer facing web solutions. My joy lies in the space where technology is used to help humans interact with other humans.
Relevant Experience
Feb 2022 - present: Senior Software Engineer (L5)
As an engineer working on Jamboard Deprecation, I am currently:
- Providing tech leadership and project management to execute on all aspects of the deprecation and turndown plan, from migrating customers to alternatives to turning down servers.
- Designing and implementing supporting features across Google Meet Add-ons, Google Meet Hardware, and the Jamboard application.
As an engineer working on Google Meet Rooms Collaboration:
- Designed, helped implement, and landed updates to the Meet Add-ons
framework and SDK.
This work enabled third-party whiteboard applications (Miro, Figma, Lucid) to run on touchscreen Google Meet Hardware (GMH) rooms devices. - Worked with external partner development teams at Miro, Figma, and Lucid to launch their Meet Add-ons.
Wowza
Feb 2014 - Feb 2022: Senior Staff Software Engineer
Wowza provides streaming media solutions to companies where video is critical to their business.
As an engineer on Wowza Clearcaster:
- Worked on a small team partnered with Facebook Live to build a video encoder hardware device to guarantee broadcaster-quality video ingest to Facebook's live streaming video service.
- Shipped a new hardware product seven months after concept.
- Designed and built the cloud-based admin application for fleet management.
- Designed and built the LCD display panel UI for at-device configuration.
- Designed and integrated interactive features with Facebook's Live Video API, and Wowza Streaming Engine's Ingest API.
- Used ReactJS, GraphQL, Java, Docker, Kubernetes
As an engineer on Wowza Player:
- Built a multi-platform HLS streaming video player (Web, iOS, Android, Flash)
- Optimized playback for Wowza's low-latency (3-10s end-to-end) solution (prior to the standardization of Low Latency HLS)
- Build a cross-language transpile pipeline allowing us to leverage Java code from the Wowza Streaming Engine product in Typescript and Actionscript clients. (Patent: US10140105B2)
- Coded WebRTC demos as a template for interacting with Wowza Streaming Engine's real-time Ingest API.
- Worked in Typescript, Java (Android), Actionscript
Zazzle
Mar 2005 - Jan 2014: UI Engineering Manager, Software Engineer
Zazzle is a marketplace and design platform for custom and customizable products.
I was the first UI developer and third software engineer hired by the Zazzle founders in 2005. Over nine years we scaled the company from a bootstrapped website running in a closet in an office on High Street in Palo Alto to a $200 million/year e-commerce platform connecting customers to custom manufacturing facilities, both in-house and partnered with Zazzle.
As the UI Engineering Manager reporting to the VPE (2006-2009) and CTO (2009-2014):
- Hired and grew the team of 10 engineers responsible for delivering all user-facing features on the Zazzle platform.
- Partnered with the Core Engineering Manager and the Director of Product Management to provide technical leadership and product strategy across the engineering organization.
- Completed performance evaluations, participated in leveling meetings, made compensation adjustment decisions, helped make layoff decisions during the 2008 downturn.
- Coached and mentored employees, providing career-path and growth opportunities.
- Represented the Zazzle UI team at conferences and technical meet-ups.
As a Software Engineer:
- Helped design and build a rich web application framework in C# and Javascript that scaled all client features across the Zazzle website.
- Prototyped, designed A-B tests, and user-tested new features before rolling out to all users.
- Worked with marketing specialists to optimize for SEO and instrument for site analytics.
- Helped design and build site localization when Zazzle expanded internationally.
- Redesigned the front-end of the website as a mobile-first, responsive application.
Other Experience
- Consulted with Cisco.com < on several company website iterations from 2000-2005 as they organized product documentation from numerous acquisitions across many product lines, and created a browsable and accessible web experience.
- Was an early developer on the java.media.sound implementation available in the JSE since version 1.2.
Education
- UNC - Chapel Hill: Master of Science, Computer Science
- NC State: Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics: Residential 2-year high school
Community Highlights
- Google RDU Blood Drive volunteer
- Frequent school volunteer, chaperone, and website builder for PTAs and Scouting packs/troops
- Cub Scout Leadership - Pack 374, San Jose, CA
- Cubmaster 2019-2021
- Den Leader 2014-2018