Risto Kontkanen
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Jarno Tukiainen
We worked in the same product, Risto as an architect and I as a PM. Risto has been amazing architect in our group. I know it hasn't been the easiest task to hop into the group as an architect, but he's managed to do it well over expectations. Risto has been really hands-on as an architect, handling everything and over what is expected from him. He's been the right hand guy in most of the things we have needed from architectural design, aligning multiple stakeholders in large and complex architectural discussions, being as an intermediate lead in many sessions when the different groups have had different views (aligning them effortlessly!), creating demos/prototypes from software and hardware, acting as a replacement trainer - like literally in everything. Risto's capability to look problems from different perspectives is awesome. He can see the solutionsand clearly communicate them to different people to align on the matter. He's adaptability to even seemingly impossible situations is something I'm a bit envious of. Can't understand how he can keep everyone cool and then result in common ground even if the people are on totally different planet. And this is usually done through presenting facts that have been investigated thoroughly beforehand. He's approach is really through proving and studying, which might result in new novel ideas on architechtural side. And what's the best, he is just humble and does the work keeping cool all the time. Imagine that. An architect that doesn't lead from the ivory towers, but is actually a part of the team and that can align everyone. Even if the solution isn't something he likes, but if there is enough reasoning, he can adapt and sees the longer goal of how things can be.
Jarno Tukiainen
We worked in the same product, Risto as an architect and I as a PM. Risto has been amazing architect in our group. I know it hasn't been the easiest task to hop into the group as an architect, but he's managed to do it well over expectations. Risto has been really hands-on as an architect, handling everything and over what is expected from him. He's been the right hand guy in most of the things we have needed from architectural design, aligning multiple stakeholders in large and complex architectural discussions, being as an intermediate lead in many sessions when the different groups have had different views (aligning them effortlessly!), creating demos/prototypes from software and hardware, acting as a replacement trainer - like literally in everything. Risto's capability to look problems from different perspectives is awesome. He can see the solutionsand clearly communicate them to different people to align on the matter. He's adaptability to even seemingly impossible situations is something I'm a bit envious of. Can't understand how he can keep everyone cool and then result in common ground even if the people are on totally different planet. And this is usually done through presenting facts that have been investigated thoroughly beforehand. He's approach is really through proving and studying, which might result in new novel ideas on architechtural side. And what's the best, he is just humble and does the work keeping cool all the time. Imagine that. An architect that doesn't lead from the ivory towers, but is actually a part of the team and that can align everyone. Even if the solution isn't something he likes, but if there is enough reasoning, he can adapt and sees the longer goal of how things can be.
Jarno Tukiainen
We worked in the same product, Risto as an architect and I as a PM. Risto has been amazing architect in our group. I know it hasn't been the easiest task to hop into the group as an architect, but he's managed to do it well over expectations. Risto has been really hands-on as an architect, handling everything and over what is expected from him. He's been the right hand guy in most of the things we have needed from architectural design, aligning multiple stakeholders in large and complex architectural discussions, being as an intermediate lead in many sessions when the different groups have had different views (aligning them effortlessly!), creating demos/prototypes from software and hardware, acting as a replacement trainer - like literally in everything. Risto's capability to look problems from different perspectives is awesome. He can see the solutionsand clearly communicate them to different people to align on the matter. He's adaptability to even seemingly impossible situations is something I'm a bit envious of. Can't understand how he can keep everyone cool and then result in common ground even if the people are on totally different planet. And this is usually done through presenting facts that have been investigated thoroughly beforehand. He's approach is really through proving and studying, which might result in new novel ideas on architechtural side. And what's the best, he is just humble and does the work keeping cool all the time. Imagine that. An architect that doesn't lead from the ivory towers, but is actually a part of the team and that can align everyone. Even if the solution isn't something he likes, but if there is enough reasoning, he can adapt and sees the longer goal of how things can be.
Jarno Tukiainen
We worked in the same product, Risto as an architect and I as a PM. Risto has been amazing architect in our group. I know it hasn't been the easiest task to hop into the group as an architect, but he's managed to do it well over expectations. Risto has been really hands-on as an architect, handling everything and over what is expected from him. He's been the right hand guy in most of the things we have needed from architectural design, aligning multiple stakeholders in large and complex architectural discussions, being as an intermediate lead in many sessions when the different groups have had different views (aligning them effortlessly!), creating demos/prototypes from software and hardware, acting as a replacement trainer - like literally in everything. Risto's capability to look problems from different perspectives is awesome. He can see the solutionsand clearly communicate them to different people to align on the matter. He's adaptability to even seemingly impossible situations is something I'm a bit envious of. Can't understand how he can keep everyone cool and then result in common ground even if the people are on totally different planet. And this is usually done through presenting facts that have been investigated thoroughly beforehand. He's approach is really through proving and studying, which might result in new novel ideas on architechtural side. And what's the best, he is just humble and does the work keeping cool all the time. Imagine that. An architect that doesn't lead from the ivory towers, but is actually a part of the team and that can align everyone. Even if the solution isn't something he likes, but if there is enough reasoning, he can adapt and sees the longer goal of how things can be.
Experience
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ABLOY
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Finland
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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System Architect
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Jun 2021 - Present
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Fluent Progress
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Finland
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technical Specialist
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Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
DevOps. VMware, Puppet, Docker.
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Senior Systems Architect
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May 2017 - Jan 2018
Leading development of a new web based work management application for construction sites. Leading Kunto development. DB admin (PostgreSQL).
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Systems Architect
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Aug 2015 - May 2017
Leading development of a new web based work management application for construction sites. Leading Kunto development. DB admin (PostgreSQL). Leading development of a new web based work management application for construction sites. Leading Kunto development. DB admin (PostgreSQL).
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Fastroi Oy
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Finland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager
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Apr 2007 - Jul 2015
Developing & managering GIS-based web application for road & street maintenance management and data collection. Database & systems architecture, DB admin for PostgreSQL. Developing & managering GIS-based web application for road & street maintenance management and data collection. Database & systems architecture, DB admin for PostgreSQL.
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Perlos
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Telecommunications
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200 - 300 Employee
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IT Specialist
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Mar 2005 - Apr 2007
Developing web applications for plastic industry production management. Creating integrations between databases, SAP and Cognos. DB2 admin. Developing web applications for plastic industry production management. Creating integrations between databases, SAP and Cognos. DB2 admin.
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Arbonaut
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Finland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Programmer
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Jan 2000 - Apr 2005
Developing and designing business logic for GIS-based web and mobile applications. Databases (DB2, Oracle) and integrations. Developing and designing business logic for GIS-based web and mobile applications. Databases (DB2, Oracle) and integrations.
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Education
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1996 - 2001
Karelia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology
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