Senior Engineering Manager
Tesla Motors
Kurt has spent the last 20 years building state of the art consumer desktop, mobile & web, and music applications, including design, coding, and launch experience. A theme throughout has been delighting the customer with beautiful and functional UIs. Currently he spends his time at Telsa Motors helping reinvent "Infotainment" in the connected car.
Prior to Tesla Kurt was at Skype for 8 years, joining as Skype’s very first North American engineer, and along the way helping to build several products and teams including the first Skype iPhone client and Skype powered Facebook video calling. Kurt has a close affinity with Estonia and over the years has visited many times and has many good friends and former colleagues there.
Before Skype, Kurt spent time as a senior developer on KaZaa, and before that worked at Apple as part of the original team that ported iTunes to Windows.
Kurt has European roots: born in the UK to a Norwegian mother and German father, but now lives in the US where he has resided for the last 18 years. When not spending time with his family he has a passion for Bitcoin, British motorbikes, and creating algorithmic music software.