Michael Kohler

01/2021 - now

Klarna Bank AB

Engineering Competence Lead, Card Management Experience (React Native, TypeScript, Node.js)

• Associate Engineering Manager for 4 engineers in the team
• Implementing and improving features on the Card Home overview screens for the Klarna Card, such as Card Details and PIN
• Implementing and improving features for the Digital Wallet products, such as Apple Pay and Google Pay
• Responsible for the 3DS frontend flows
• Responsible for the Klarna Card Communications service (transactional emails)
• Responsible for the Customer Agent portal integration for the Klarna Card

Senior Engineer, Klarna Card Payment Methods (React Native, TypeScript, Node.js)

• Implementing and maintaining different Payment Methods for the Klarna Card depending on the market
• Improvements and expansion of the Pre-Purchase Financing offer for the Klarna Card
• Market expansion for the Klarna Card
• Leading Team Ceremonies such as refinements and retrospectives
• Tech Lead role on new projects, mostly for technical discovery
• On-boarding new members of the team
• Helping others with personal development and mentorship
• Regular knowledge sharing with other team members

Senior Engineer, Klarna Card Management (React Native, TypeScript, Node.js)

• Implementing and maintaining different Payment Methods for the Klarna Card
• Implementing and maintaining the Card Controls such as freezing or canceling a Card

04/2008 - now

Volunteer @ Mozilla Foundation

Developer, Community Builder

• Mozilla Rep since 2012 - served on the Reps Council and now a Reps Module Peer
• Improved the Common Voice Sentence Collector (Node.js, React, MySQL) and Sentence Extractor (Rust)
• Implemented several GitHub Actions to automate processes for Common Voice
• Created several volunteer campaign websites to boost volunteer involvement
• Contributions to Firefox (Testing, Coding)
• Contributions to Firefox OS (Testing, Coding, Evangelism, Apps)
• Contributions to Webmaker (Teaching)

02/2019 - 12/2020

Control4 (acquired NEEO)

Senior Software Development Engineer

• Integration of the Neeo Remote into the Control4 system (Node.js)
• Bugfixes on the Control4 remote driver (Lua)
• Feature Flags implementation and Release Management processes, tools and pipelines
• Improvements to Automated Test Infrastructure (Python, Ansible, GitLab)
• Implementation of Metrics Tracking and Dashboards (Node.js, SQL, Grafana)
• Continuous improvement of development environment
• Mentoring other team members

11/2016 - 01/2019

NEEO AG

JavaScript Developer

• Development of the NEEO services serving content to the remote (Node.js, Linux)
• Integration of Z-Wave devices into NEEO (including certification)
• Development of the NEEO App for configuration (Ionic, AngularJS)
• Development of the NEEO Cloud to manage customer accounts and firmware groups
• Customer Support on the NEEO Planet

04/2015 - 10/2016

NETCASE GmbH

Web Developer

• Created several smaller websites (Vanilla JS, Sails.js)
• Worked on a larger product management tool (Node.js, Loopback, AngularJS)

01/2014 - 02/2015

Swisscom Banking Provider AG

Application Developer, 2nd-Level-Support Document Output Management

• Worked on a large project to migrate the core banking platform of several banks
• Responsible for the Document Output System used to print customer documents
• Improvements and adjustments to documents and wizard (C#, VBA, Office)
• Requirement engineering and project management for the Document Output System

08/2010 - 12/2013

Entris Banking AG

Application Developer, 2nd-Level-Support Document Output Management

• Worked on a large project to migrate the core banking platform of several banks
• Responsible for a part of the Document Output System
• Improvements and adjustments to documents (VBA, Office)
• Requirement engineering and project management for the Document Output System