Nov 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Dec 2023 – Nov 2024 · 11 mos · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

• Noice is noice!
• Helping the product team be more awesome.

Jan 2023 – Aug 2023 · 7 mos · Remote

• Worked as the initial CTO/CPO for the talent platform for the creator economy. Built the core product development team and drafted strategy for the product. Vouch was acquired by Mr. Beast in August 2024.
• Moved to a advisory/consulting role at the start of September 2023 as I moved to the other side of the planet.

Aug 2022 – Mar 2023 · 7 mos

• Helped Fixably reach its mission of reducing electronic waste and extending the lifespan of smart devices.

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Helped the company build the first version of the product, close initial financing and get the first enterprise customers.

Mar 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Handshake is the college career network of the future, built to transform the recruiting experience for college students, career centers and employers. Our mission is to democratize access to opportunity: To help every college student find the right job for them, no matter where they go to school, what they’re majoring in, or who they know.
• Joined the company with a 20+ person engineering organization, grew the teams to 60 in less than two years. Spearheaded opening a new development office in Denver that's now home to almost 20 Handshakers.

Jan 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Built a new engineering organization in San Francisco, reporting directly to the company CEO. Organization grew from 0 to 40+ people in 18 months, hiring individual contributors, engineering managers, lead engineers, etc. Created a development process for the new teams, focusing on delivery speed and quality.
• The teams I managed worked on high-availability systems (Golang, Redis, NATS), customer-facing dashboards (Angular, Node.JS, MongoDB), and data pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Redshift, Airflow).

Mar 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

• After Unity Technologies acquired Applifier, I worked with multiple stakeholders within Unity to integrate Applifier products - GameAds (now known as Unity Ads) and Everyplay - into Unity's core product offering. I also helped continue scaling the teams, growing from the roughly 35 people in Helsinki in 2014, to over 70 by the end of 2015.
• Responsible for the engineering (and partially product) of Unity’s Everyplay product, a service for mobile game developers to allow instant-replay functionality in their games. Managed creation of related social network for gamers that replays could be uploaded to. The Everyplay mobile SDK has been integrated into thousands of games.
• Technologies used: Node.JS, Backbone, React Native, MongoDB, Redis

Nov 2010 – Mar 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Joined an early-stage startup with 7 people to run product management and engineering. Was responsible for defining overall product roadmap and delivery on that roadmap. Hired engineers, product managers and designers, QA, etc., scaling the organization to 35 in product development. Managed hyper-growth on product front by defining process for scalability, monitoring, on-call, etc. Drove multiple technology improvement iterations over the course of 4 years of product growth.
• Applifier was aquired by Unity Technologies in March 2014.
• Technologies used: Node.JS, MongoDB, Cassandra, Backbone

Oct 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• After Alma Media Oyj acquired Vuodatus.net, I stayed on still running the service as a Development Manager, improving the overall functionality of the site and introducing premium subscription plans for users.
• During the time at Alma Media, I also helped Kauppalehti - the biggest Finnish financial publication - roll out their blogging tools on their website.

Jun 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos

• About six months into my employment at Monster I was also made responsible for Monster.fi’s four-person customer support team and my title changed to development manager. I worked closely with the sales team, trying to help customer service and sales work better together. I also focused on creating a more metrics-driven customer service organization which helped us pinpoint bottlenecks in the service and improve performance. At largest, my team size was 6 people – four in customer service and two in software development.

Nov 2006 – Jun 2007 · 7 mos

• I joined the recruitment portal Monster.fi as a technical project manager, responsible for working with larger clients integrating with Monster’s recruitment system and helping the customer service with more technical issues. I was also the acting product manager when discussing new features of Monster.fi with the global Monster Worldwide technical team.

May 2004 – Nov 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Worked as technical consultant designing, building and consulting on documentation systems designed for international companies.

Jan 2004 – Oct 2008 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Vuodatus.net was the first totally Finnish blogging platform, targeted at the casual internet user that didn't want to have the hassle of setting up WordPress or other platforms.
• Due to it's ease-of-use and exceptional customer support, it quickly grew in popularity to it's peak of reaching almost 1 million unique visitors a month (meaning over one in six Finns visited the site monthly).
• The site was acquired by Alma Media Oyj in October 2008.

Nov 2002 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Worked as a developer building platforms for MMS/SMS/OTA mobile delivery.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr

• TTM-Tieto builds large-scale ERP systems for mobile operators. I was involved in building portions of the J2EE-based ERP.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr

• Modirum Oy started as a consulting department of the IT-training company Teleware. I worked mostly on digital-TV projects (in a time when digi-tv was just coming to Finland), building software for the no-longer-existing MHP-platform, and I actually created the first interactive TV-advertisment in Finland, which attracted the interest of nationwide news.