Jani Laakso

Jani Laakso Email and Phone Number

Co-founder and CTO @ enkel energi
Turku, FI
Jani Laakso's Location
Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland, Finland
About Jani Laakso

Hands-on tech leader who loves building, coding, solving business challenges. Co-founder of several tech companies with 2 solid exits. I have established and lead sites in Silicon Valley (USA), Barcelona, and Finland. My personality is highly entrepreneurial. The USA market is my primary interest.Now focusing on my 5th startup: Connecting EVs to the power markets with deep tech AI.Skill highlights- Inspirational leadership, project & team mgmt, top talent acquisition, company culture- Bridging the communication gap between business and tech- Startups, Ops & CEO for startup phase, advisor roles- Product ownership, out of the box thinking, data driven customer feedback loop, UX- Digitalisation, consultation, SaaS, modern MarTech, sales, legal (IT), open source & DevRel- Bringing sense fast even to the hardest projects in various stages - Modern development stacks, architecture, infra and tools, complex backends, tech debt- AWS and Google Cloud platforms with various service stacks- Python, GoLang, JavaScript and Java ecosystems, medium level programming in various languages (deep understanding but not an expert coder in any language currently)- React, Vaadin, and Flutter (basics only) as a UI techstack- Several DB techs, incl. big data, BI platforms & reporting, ELT / ETL- Various AI techs, incl. some ML, training of LLMs, RAG, Vector DBsI also tinker with embedded projects (ESP32 / STM32, Raspberry etc), practicing metal works (MIG / TIG welding), and acting as a engine mechanic on various projects, also Solar inverter / battery / EV / heatpump energy related projects.Also investing and acting as advisor to IT startups / scaleups.

Jani Laakso's Current Company Details
enkel energi

Enkel Energi

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Co-founder and CTO
Turku, FI
Website:
enkelenergi.dk
Employees:
5
Jani Laakso Work Experience Details
  • Enkel Energi
    Co-Founder And Cto
    Enkel Energi
    Turku, Fi
  • Enkel Energi
    Co-Founder / Cto
    Enkel Energi May 2024 - Present
    Connecting EVs to the power markets with deep tech AI.The future of energy is under wraps. 🌿⚡️
  • Fairy Valley
    Chairman Of The Board / Co-Founder
    Fairy Valley Nov 2017 - Present
    IT (/AI) and education related consulting and project + service deliveries.
  • Gofore
    Tech Principal
    Gofore Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
    Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Fi
    Expert level IT guidance on pre-sales and project deliveries in a cross-functional teams.
  • Leadoo Marketing Technologies
    Chief Technology Officer
    Leadoo Marketing Technologies Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
    Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi
    Hands-on CTO role. Rebuild technical team and codebase from zero. Replaced monolithic LAMP stack into state of the art JavaScript / TypeScript / React / AWS stack, exploiting IaC (infrastructure as code: Terraform), microservices, kubernetes and many other cloud based services lowering development costs, ensuring decent time to market while platform keeps growing, ensuring great uptime and scalability. I love the opportunity to directly coach my team, at times joining the dev team when tech design or coding may need an extra pair of hands.
  • Corona-Help.Uk
    Co-Founder
    Corona-Help.Uk Mar 2020 - May 2021
    Delivering a real time evidence base for the Government of United Kingdom / NHS. Deploying a self-reporting family of chatbots and data insights which will be widely marketed on social media. My role was to build and deliver all tech solo and as pro-bono, including NHS application approval process. Continuing with other similar projects on a private space through a UK based company.
  • Greyfinch
    Chief Technology Officer
    Greyfinch Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
    Continuing to lead big Healthcare SaaS for the United States market through Greyfinch which is a spin off from Rock Dental (USA). Techstack mainly Java, Spring, Vaadin, React and Google Cloud Platform. My role also consisted of acting as the CEO / Director for Barcelona LLC company while leading our R&D unit operations.
  • Rock Dental Brands
    Chief Technology Officer
    Rock Dental Brands Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
    Little Rock, Arkansas, Us
    Creating Healthcare SaaS for the United States market. Setting up a daughter company, building new R&D unit, for Rock Dental USA to Barcelona, Spain. Hiring IT experts, co-ordinating multiple projects in Finland, USA and Poland. Overseeing our technical decisions. I was also the CEO for the daughter LLC company. Still largely providing lead coding using Java, Spring, Vaadin and setting up our Google Cloud platform services and handling devops.
  • Vaadin
    Principal Engineer / Cto
    Vaadin Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
    Turku, Turku, Fi
    Leading Vaadin's biggest customer project (Rock Dental USA) by acting as their hired CTO and Project Manager. Project involved teams working in US, Finland and Poland. Secondarily taking lead on developing our sales process and revenues in German area. Analyzing what needs to be done and hiring regional sales manager for the DACH area (between 2014 March to August).
  • Vaadin
    Coo / Country Manager
    Vaadin Dec 2011 - Mar 2014
    Turku, Turku, Fi
    Building Vaadin's USA operations from scratch in California with the support from Vaadin HQ. My daily operations involved of setting up our California office, sales & marketing nation wide, acting as the key technology expert and eventually growing and managing our technical team on US soil.
  • Vaadin
    Principal Engineer
    Vaadin Jun 2010 - Dec 2011
    Turku, Turku, Fi
    Delivering larger & complex Java EE & Vaadin related projects through Product or Project Management, including lead level coding. EU and USA region.
  • Vaadin
    Product Manager
    Vaadin Oct 2006 - Jun 2010
    Turku, Turku, Fi
    Product management for a Java / JavaScript open-sourced UI framework product with commercial product and service offering.
  • Vaadin
    Co-Founder / Chairman Of The Board
    Vaadin Sep 2000 - Dec 2006
    Turku, Turku, Fi
    Startup operations, leadership & board operations, sales, focusing on full scale project deliveries with a heavy coding aspect.
  • Stonesoft Corporation
    Unit Manager
    Stonesoft Corporation Oct 2004 - Jan 2007
    R&D unit and project management. Supervising all unit operations including development, infra and QA teams. Linux kernel- and userspace development on firewall and security related product development and projects. Note: nowadays this company is McAfee.
  • Multimedica Oy And Atuline Oy
    Systems Analyst
    Multimedica Oy And Atuline Oy Jan 1999 - Aug 2000
    Lead developer working on specifications, implementation, infrastructure in 3 different healthcare IT projects, my main and biggest delivery was a virtual hospital called Atuline.fi that had fifty doctors offering services to Finnish citizens remotely using our application.

Jani Laakso Skills

Agile Methodologies Java Scrum Java Enterprise Edition Git Software Project Management Integration Web Applications Software Design Agile Project Management Architecture Product Management Web Services Subversion Project Management Javascript Open Source Architectures Tomcat Linux Uml Relational Databases Sql Python Technical Product Sales Sales Country Managers Technology Evangelism Spring Di Spring Boot Spring Security Bpmn Html5 Bitbucket Jira Nosql Cloud Computing Cloud Storage Vaadin

Jani Laakso Education Details

  • Turun Yliopisto - University Of Turku
    Turun Yliopisto - University Of Turku
    Master Of Science

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Jani Laakso attended Turun Yliopisto - University Of Turku.

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