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GoforePeople Lead & Lead Expert
Jan. 2025Helsinki Metropolitan Area- Managing a team focusing on AI-assisted software development.
- Providing technical leadership in customer projects. Planning and organizing workshops. Helping in project pre-sales.
FluenticTechnical Lead
Nov. 2022 - Dec. 2024Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland- Led the development of Fluentic's AI-powered translation and customer service automation platform using LangChain, OpenAI ChatGPT, RAG with Qdrant, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS. - Designed the serverless backend systems architecture and data model from scratch. - Built REST APIs to enable private and public integrations ingesting the services and data. - Created dashboards with usage metrics to support sales and product management operations.
- Implemented DevOps best practices, improving deployment velocity by 20%.
- Managed a high-performing team of engineers and drove the development and launch of the platform.
ReaktorSoftware Architect
Jan. 2022 - Nov. 2022Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland- Built and architected in-flight entertainment system components for one of the world's largest airlines using TypeScript, Node.js, NoSQL, and AWS.
- Drove backend development and systems design, influencing the client's technical strategy and platform architecture.
- Designed and implemented serverless backend services and APIs.
- Mentored junior developers with pair programming, code reviews, and guiding with best practices.
VincitTechnical Lead
Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2022Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland- Led a development team and facilitated agile methodologies with customer stakeholders. Architected and built a serverless microservice backend for retail business.
- Designed and developed a customer-facing website for 30k annual product requests and their supporting management web applications with, e.g., Typescript, Node.js, React, Redux, AWS, Azure, React Native, MySQL, Redis, AWS CDK.
NeverthinkSenior Product Developer
Jun. 2019 - Feb. 2020Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland- Programmed web backend, frontend, and Android app for short-form video entertainment, which garnered over 700M views worldwide. - Increased developer team productivity by 20% by implementing DevOps best practices and automating app releases.
- Used tech: Javascript, Node.js, React, React Native, Redux, AWS
FuturiceTechnical Lead
Aug. 2018 - Jun. 2019Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland- Led and coached a team of developers by inspecting ways of working and designing best practices. Advised and coached client organization in agile implementation.
- Designed and developed backend services for healthcare apps. Architected and implemented a new backend microservice for collecting customer event data using serverless technologies using, e.g., Typescript, Node.js, React, Redux, Azure
- Interviewed candidates for engineering roles.
WunderdogSenior Consultant
Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2018Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland- Drove agile methodologies in software product development by coaching team members and stakeholders. - Applied DevOps improvements and new cloud-based technologies. Modernized API platform for banking services, developed full-stack financial and investment news service. - Designed and developed new APIs for the financial sector. Initiated workforce management application from the ground up in 2 months using, e.g., Javascript, TypeScript, Serverless, AWS, Node.js, React, Redux, and Go.
SolitaProject Manager
Feb. 2014 - Aug. 2017Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland- Led and built a customer-facing health education web service with a small team. Translated customer requirements to technical features by working actively with product owners and stakeholders. - Managed a project and a team of 10 developers and data scientists to create a business-critical ERP system for a Nordic oil trade company.
- Successfully scaled the development team, resulting in a project turnover growth of over 300% in the first 24 months.
- Designed and developed backend software using Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, JSP, jQuery, JavaScript, and REST APIs.
SolitaSoftware Designer
Sep. 2010 - Feb. 2014Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland- Drove an agile team of 6 developers as a Scrum Master. Modernized a business-critical system for Finnish real property sales and mortgage management.
- Wrote algorithms and data structures to combine XML output with Oracle SQL queries.
- Recognized for excellent customer satisfaction by coaching and helping customers with business and product requirements and technical specifications.
- Developed backend applications using Java, Spring Framework, Wicket, and Oracle RDBMS.
Sasken Finland OySenior Software Engineer
Jun. 2008 - Sep. 2010Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland- Promoted as a lead software engineer for a multisite project aimed at developing countries. Managed and led an agile multicultural team of 3 developers.
- Awarded for high customer satisfaction in a project where produced software was shipped with over 10 million mobile phones.
- Developed client-side applications using Symbian S60/C++ and server-side applications using Java EE, JSP, and JSTL. Deployed usability enhancements using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Sasken Finland OySoftware Engineer
Jun. 2005 - Jun. 2008Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland- Built mobile apps with C++ and Symbian S60, and web software with Java, JSP, HTML, and CSS.
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