Business judgment and technical delivery. Same person. Same engagement.
50+ companies
Operating, technical, commercial, and delivery experience from inside the work.
Nearly 100 companies
Mentored through product, market, technical, and operating decisions.
Production AI
On-prem deployment, document intelligence, and automation, not demos.
What I do
I diagnose where companies are actually failing: across offer, market, sales, delivery, architecture, operations, and AI implementation. Then define what to fix first. When technical delivery is the right answer, I lead it personally.
How I work
First pass is always diagnostic: map what is broken, what cannot be fixed, and what AI will not solve. Then choose the shortest credible path to a working result. The diagnostic is the product; technology is one possible fix.
AI
Agentic pipelines, RAG at production scale, on-prem LLM deployment, document intelligence, multi-agent orchestration, and evaluation frameworks, built and maintained under data-sovereignty and compliance constraints. AI is useful only when it solves the actual constraint.
Mentoring
Nearly 100 companies mentored across product, market entry, technical delivery, and operating decisions. The work is not motivational coaching: identify the real constraint, separate symptoms from causes, and make the next decision concrete. Full approach: founder & operator mentoring.
Constraints
Regulated environments, data sovereignty, undocumented APIs, legacy codebases, and AI projects that have already failed once. Constraints are part of the work, not an excuse to avoid it.
Experience
Fractional CTO & Technical Lead
2025 - Present
Independent Practice · Europe · MENA · Americas · APAC
Hands-on technical lead: own the architecture, the delivery, and the result. Not advisory. Not steering committees.
Regulated Nordic operator: on-prem regulatory monitoring, document workflows, and meeting automation under strict data-sovereignty requirements.
Legal-sector document intelligence: redesigned core workflows and automation, producing roughly 2.4× casework throughput without additional headcount — case study.
AI project diagnostics and rescues: inherited prototypes that had failed to create operational value, identified root causes, and rebuilt only the parts worth keeping.
CTO & Lead Full-Stack Engineer
2023 - 2025
One Second AI · Helsinki
Combined CTO, COO, commercial, customer-success, finance, and hands-on engineering responsibilities in a live AI product company.
Built the core AI architecture: multi-agent document processing pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation at scale, orchestration layers, content automation: Python / Node / React / AWS / Azure / GCP.
Designed for production from day one: eval frameworks, failure modes, cost controls. Not prototype-quality wrapped in enterprise pricing.
Translated AI capability into board-level business cases and delivery plans for high-value contracts.
Full P&L, client acquisition, and hands-on delivery across retail, e-commerce, and industrial clients.
Technical Lead & Solutions Architect
2022 - 2023
Pegasi Oy · Madeira
Concept to market-ready, owning architecture and execution. Python · Node · TypeScript · C++ · MongoDB · Docker · AWS / GCP / Azure.
Product reached sales-ready maturity within timeline; company began commercial operations.
CTO / Head of Software Production
2020 - 2022
CSIT Finland Oy · Helsinki
Led engineering team and delivery pipeline: Agile/Scrum, multiple simultaneous releases.
Standardised DevOps and CI/CD, tripling deployment frequency, fewer production incidents.
Stack: AWS · MariaDB · React. High-availability IAM SaaS for healthcare, 100% security compliance.
CEO & Lead Developer — UNI-HAID (TEKES)
2016 - 2018
LUT University / Med-Tech Startup · Finland
Main founder and full executive of a hearing-aid startup, leading the product, technical delivery, company operations, and commercial activity.
Built the hearing-aid product and its production methods on embedded Linux and Android (Java · C++ · NDK), including low-latency signal processing. My biomedical engineering thesis covered related research.
Led the company through seed stage and public TEKES funding, coordinating R&D and delivery.
If this is the profile you were looking for — a two-week diagnostic is where we start. Free 30-minute call first to confirm the fit.
