I have extensive experience of over 20 years, working as entrepreneur, founder, CEO, board member and technical project manager/owner. Here's a list of some projects I have been involved with.
Building SaaS takt planning and lean construction management software. From zero to production with paying customers across Finland.
Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS
Product owner
06/2010 – 12/2017
Vertaislaina Oy – Lainaaja.fi
Built a peer-to-peer lending platform from scratch, managing remote and on-site teams. Led product and handled project manager responsibilities across multiple workstreams over seven years.
PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Linux, Agile, Jira
Design & data analysis
01/2011 – 07/2018
Credit Scoring Models – Big Data Scoring / Vertaislaina
Designed and implemented credit scoring with decision trees; assisted in specifying and training ML models. Ongoing data gathering and source curation over seven years.
Automated transfer of sales and purchase ledgers to accounting software by building a virtual API with RPA for transferring and verifying data.
Sikulix, RPA, Win10 server, Asteri, Avisor
Designer & developer
2019 –
OCR Return-Post Handler
Proof-of-concept for scanning invoices and reading customer IDs with optical character recognition. Ongoing ML training to improve accuracy.
Python, OpenCV, Tesseract, CUTIE, Linux
Software & business developer
08 – 12/2018
Crypto-Backed Lending MVP – Tesseract Investment Oy
Built a quick MVP for a cryptocurrency-backed lending site and did business development to gauge user interest.
PHP, NoCode, Marketing
Design & specifications
04/2017 – 03/2018
Cryptocurrency Arbitrage Trading – Dynamoid
Designed the logic and routing algorithms for automatic trading exploiting Bitcoin price differences across exchanges.
Linux, PHP, REST
Business & tech specifications, testing
10/2017 – 02/2018
Loan Portfolio BI Reporting – Front Finance Oy
With Group CFO developed real-time receivable portfolio reports for accounting and regulatory compliance — daily loan valuation, cashflows, and expected payoffs.
LAMP, SQL, Excel
Project manager: specification & DB design
03 – 06/2018
Credit Info Exchange – Asiakastieto / Vertaislaina
Consumer positive credit record system: push own customer records to the registry and query non-customer data.
SQL, REST, Jira, Agile
Project management & specification
03 – 06/2012
Bank Payment Gateway – Tieto / Vertaislaina
Supervised and defined the integration of payment gateways to Tieto’s multibank infrastructure.
API, SOAP, MySQL
Specification, design & testing
07 – 12/2011
Loan Interest Calculation – Vertaislaina
Designed the annuity calculation model and implemented testing protocols to verify calculation accuracy.