MK

Märt Kelder

Co-Founder at Sixfold

Estonia

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Startups
Product Management
Testing
Mobile Devices
Start-ups
Software Development
Quality Assurance
Mobile Applications
Software Engineering
Management
VoIP
Video
Strategy
Software Quality Assurance
Perl
Software Project Management
Engineering Management
Technical Recruiting
Distributed Systems
Test Automation

Education

Work Experience

2014

  • First investor

    2014

    Taxify is modernizing the way we hail, ride and pay for taxis. We are giving taxi companies the tools to compete with Uber. I'm helping Taxify with product strategy and recruiting.

2017 - 2021

  • Co-Founder, Managing Director

    2017 - 2021

2015 - 2017

  • CEO

    2015 - 2017

    Palleter connects freight with trucks passing by. Sold to Transporeon.com

2013 - 2014

  • Principal Product Manager - Mobile video opportunities

    2013 - 2014

    Working with Design, Dev, Test and Marketing to bring new Mobile video related experiences to Skype users

2003 - 2013

  • Video team lead at Skype (Principal development manager)

    2008 - 2013

    * Responsible for strategy and delivery for the video technology and development organization * Grew the team from one to more than 2 dozen developers working in 9 independent scrum teams across 3 locations delivering the video stack for 7 different desktop and mobile platforms simultaneously * Lead inbound licensing and evaluation of various 3rd party modules * Transitioned the organization to Scrum (I'm a certified scrum master)

  • Call Quality Team Lead

    2006 - 2008

    Responsible for improving Skypes call quality. * Implemented telemetry collection and reporting. * Lead the research and evaluation of various ways for improving the quality of Skype to Skype and Skype to PSTN calls. * Evaluated quality measurement tools from Opticom, Swissqual, Head Accoustics, etc * Conducted technical due diligence on various inbound license agreements

  • Quality Assurance Team Lead

    2003 - 2006

    * Built up the entire QA organization from just myself to 25 engineers in 5 departments at 3 different sites. * Being the first QA engineer hired to Skype my duties included: ** testing the different modules of Skype software such as: *** Graphical user interface (including usability testing/hallway studies) *** Peer-to-Peer stack (call routing, NAT traversal, etc) *** www.skype.com (testing our website) *** testing backend services (user management, paid services, etc) ** Developing and maintaining processes and polices *** Bug management process *** Developing buildscripts for repeatable automated build procedures (Perl and shell scripting) * Managing the QA team at Skype * Implemented various automated test systems using Bash and Python * On my spare time I was developing the Installer for Skype for Windows

2007 - 2010

  • Co-Founder

    2007 - 2010

    Voog is offering the best alternative to WordPress for design studios and individuals. Don't mess with hosting infra and software patching. Our designs are beautiful, modern and it supports many languages.