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Turku, Fi

Connecting EVs to the power markets with deep tech AI.The future of energy is under wraps. 🌿⚡️

IT (/AI) and education related consulting and project + service deliveries.

Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Fi

Expert level IT guidance on pre-sales and project deliveries in a cross-functional teams.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Turku, Turku, Fi

Delivering larger & complex Java EE & Vaadin related projects through Product or Project Management, including lead level coding. EU and USA region.

Turku, Turku, Fi

Product management for a Java / JavaScript open-sourced UI framework product with commercial product and service offering.

Turku, Turku, Fi

Startup operations, leadership & board operations, sales, focusing on full scale project deliveries with a heavy coding aspect.

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.

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.