Ott Kaukver

Who is Ott Kaukver?

Ott Kaukver leads Skype’s worldwide engineering activities

along with Core Technology and QA. Ott is responsible for core platform

development; he runs colorful teams of highly-skilled professionals

that include PhD researchers, web developers and hardcore C++

programmers.

Ott joined Skype as Technical Operations Manager in May 2004 when

the company employed just 30 people worldwide. Within a month, Skype

released its first paid offering and Ott began building a proper

support organization around the engineering team. When he moved to his

current position in late 2005, the Technical Operations team had grown

to 75 people.

Ott joined Skype from Helmes, a Tallinn-based software development

and IT-consulting company, where he helped turn a small loss-making

group of programmers into a profitable 30-person team. Previously, Ott

was instrumental in launching Xxl.ee, Estonia’s first internet portal,

and has served as the Baltic IT manager for the retail research company

Profindex.

Ott is a graduate of the Estonian Business School, with a degree in

International Business Administration. Based in Tallinn, his passions

include photography, cycling, triathlons and good food.