Mika Koivisto Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, FI

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

• Collaborated with stakeholders, including enterprise architects, security architects, cloud architects, and lawyers, to design and architect the PSD2-compliant payment, account information, and funds confirmation APIs..
• Re-engineered the APIs using Vert.x as requirements evolved, transitioning from a mixed technology stack to a standardized one. This resulted in improved performance, scalability, and maintainability, while also.
• Took ownership of and consolidated the authorization solutions for web, mobile, and sandbox environments, previously maintained by different teams, into a single unified solution, simplifying maintenance and reducing.
• Co-authored the first JWT-based security token for internal API usage, providing a stateless alternative to the existing SAML 2.0 and session-based token systems, facilitating hybrid cloud development.
• Represented OP in Open Banking Europe technical and functional working groups, contributing to the definition of the OBE directory service.
• Maintained and operated the production environment, optimizing the solution to be managed by a two-person team, streamlining operations and enabling deployments at any time.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

• Technical lead on the existing solution, which requires a complete technical overhaul to align with OP’s architectural standards and meet new regulatory requirements.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

• Took over as the technical lead on the project, providing team guidance and conducting code reviews to ensure alignment with OP’s architectural standards.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

• Provided architectural guidance and conducted code reviews, ensuring the project aligns with OP’s architectural guidelines and requirements.

Kauniainen, Finland

• Select contract assignments:
• CA Technologies (USA): Implementation of encrypted token support to Liferay SAML 2.0 provider. Worked with teams in USA and India to integrate the solution to CAs own product.
• Mondi Group (Austria): Performed performance analysis for a Liferay platform to identify and provide a report with actionable suggestions to fix the issues.
• OP Financial Group (Finland): Ongoing details above

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Report directly to Chief Software Architect and VP of Engineering
• Integration specialist handling Liferay document connectors for Documentum, SharePoint, Nuxeo, Alfresco and many other CMIS document repositories
• Lead designer and developer for Liferay SAML 2.0 Identity Provider and Service Provider support
• Expert on third party integrations for SSO such as SAML, SiteMinder and Facebook

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

• Held public and private trainings on following topics: Portal Administration, System Administration and Development
• Provided clients architecture consulting, auditing and solution validation
• Held technical workshops and provided technical pre-sales support
• Provided clients performance tuning and production installations
• Developed integrations using technologies such as SAML and Terracotta DSO
• Worked with many Fortune Global 500 companies such as Robert Bosch, Vodafone, Barclays and IBM

Helsinki, Finland

• Lead Software Architect Nov 2006 – Mar 2009
• Technical coordination of architects in several concurrent projects in a named account
• Provided technical pre-sales support and evaluated technical aspects of RFPs
• Held architecture and code reviews on regular basis
• Held developer trainings and mentoring
• Architected solutions using Liferay Portal and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Helsinki, Finland

• Lead the design and migration of Perl based platform to Enterprise Java platform
• Designed and developed an email system for 300k active users
• Designed a mobile content and SMS application platform
• Designed and developed integrations for eCommerce payment processing

Bellingham, WA, USA

• Assisted university webmaster with maintenance and development of university website
• Developed several Perl/CGI based web applications

Computer Software Engineering

Studied Information Technology with focus on software engineering

Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Western Computer Users Group WCUG, ACM• Studied computer science