Jarkko Laaksonen
Chief Technology Officer at Paytrail
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolJarkko Laaksonen is a technology leader and CTO with a decade of experience shaping software products and platforms in finance, wearables, and fintech. He currently leads Paytrail as CTO, where he balances hands-on delivery with strategic product ownership, blending technical depth with a clear understanding of user needs. A people-first leader, he thrives at the intersection of engineering and business, mentoring teams to ship reliable, scalable solutions that deliver real user value. His career spans senior product ownership at OP Financial Group and leadership roles at Polar Electro, where he guided cross-functional teams and implemented effective scrum practices. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Tampere and is based in Tampere, Finland, continually refining processes through automation and repeatable patterns. Outside of full-time coding, he quietly scripts workflows to tackle repetitive tasks, treating each automation as a small completed triumph.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Tampere 1925-2018Computer Science, Computer Science at Tampereen yliopisto
English, Swedish, German, Finnish, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
html10
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nodejs10
javascript10
playing10
vuejs10
reactjs10
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mongodb10
react10
code-documentation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Bunjl/RecoverLaboratory
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
volontario/volontario-client
Nov 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 issue in 6 months
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