My career so far
Freelancer
After Underhood, I've been working as a freelancer designing and developing web based products. I'm writing most of my UI code in Vue and Quasar and back-end stuff with Node.js.
Underhood && Mimid.io
At Underhood, my role was CTO and Co-founder. My role was to work on all technical aspects of the service. Underhood is a startup that's funded by a great group of angels and companies. Underhood is a social media metrics service that gathers information about brands automatically and lets users to create reports, compare to other brands and find good content that works well on social media. I worked on Underhood since 2016 until December 2019.
Majority of my work there was to design and architect the service and make it all come together with other team members like designers and often other developers. I developed most parts of the service by myself, from the front-end down to the App Engine setups, deployments and databases.
Underhood was sold to Tekir in the summer of 2019.
We also created another service/startup called Mimid.io during the time. Mimid.io is a full browser based document editor with the ability to robotize some or all of the writing, so that one could automate document generation based on data.
Freelancer
Before joining Underhood, I worked as a freelance developer since 2012. I worked mostly on web and mobile apps and services. During that time, I worked on brands and companies like Sanoma, L&T, City of Helsinki, A-lehdet, Tallink Silja and Finlex, often with agencies such as Nordkapp, Isobar and Motley.
Majority of the tech work was planning and implementing web services and apps.
Sofanatics
In 2010, I joined a startup called Sofanatics, as the CTO. We created a service for Social TV, so that sports fans could connect in real time during the match days. Our main focus was on team sports like football, ice-hockey and basketball. Our "Stadion" chat made it possible for the fans (1000s of live users) to chat, chant and cheer in real time during the matches. We had clients like FC Barcelona and NBA.
I worked mostly on the real-time backend that was made in Java and JavaScript, but also took part in other areas of the service, like working on the web stuff in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Flex and AWS.
While we came close to making Sofanatics successful, we failed to get round A and we're forced to close the company in the end.
Entrepreneur
Before Sofanatics, I was an entrepreneur since 2001. My company, Beam Jive, was a small development shop that focused on digital services and advanced prototyping. We worked in standard web technologies and we were also well known as Flash/Flex developers. We had a strong focus on user interfaces and user experience from the start.
In addition to the UI work, I worked a lot on server-side stuff in Java and PHP. I also implemented several socket servers (TCP and UDP) and custom web servers in Java. For one client I also reverse engineered the (then popular) Flash Media Server binary protocol and implemented a server based on that work - all that work for a client.
We were a little (around five) developers and designers - all really good in our craft. We served clients such as Telia, Elisa, Comptel and Nokia.
Dynexco
My first real and full-time developer job was at Dynexco as a developer. There I was part of the engineering team implementing a mobile/web based payment system. I worked mostly in Linux environment coding stuff in C/C++ and GTK/Qt.
This was still during the great hype era, and dear lord what a ride it was to work for this company 😅
