Todd Ferkingstad

About Todd Ferkingstad

What survives isn’t what lasts—it’s what adapts.In the summer of 1992, I took a contract job at Microsoft that was only supposed to last two weeks. That turned into a career that has now spanned 3 decades and a vast array of companies, technologies, methodologies, 1.0s, bug tracking systems, re-orgs, blue screens, stack ranks, network errors, emails, escalations, hardware revs, war teams, kernel panics, 2.0s, ship parties, Pri 0\'s, layoffs, one pagers, startups, reboots, review systems, team lunches, betas, acronyms, offsites, sprints, waterfalls, bug bashes, slacks, interviews, funding rounds, programming languages, protocols, stack dumps, hot fixes, AI models, annotations, post mortems, thrills of victories, and agonies of defeats.And I’m still going.

Experience

1. Swe Machine Learning Research - Data & Machine Learning Innovation Mind Team

   Apple

   Jun 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Helping Apple build new and exciting Computer Vision and Multimodal thingies by leveraging my broad experience across multiple customer groups, technologies, and machine learning research methods.

Education

• Highline College

  AAS, Microcomputer Information Systems

  1989 — 1991

Skills

• Mobile Devices
• Release Engineering
• Program Management
• Leadership
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Embedded Linux
• Agile Methodologies
• Big Data Analytics
• Management
• Linux
• Quality Assurance
• Drums
• Studio Recording
• Raspberry Pi
• Guitarist
• Javascript
• Bassist
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Xbox
• Software Engineering
• Strategy
• Mobile
• C
• Xml
• Electric Guitar
• Process Engineering
• Iot
• Software Design
• Audio Engineering
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Jira
• Mobile Applications
• 3d Printing
• Testing
• Data Analysis
• Cloud
• Test Management