Aki Kärkkäinen
Consultant at Nion
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolAki Kärkkäinen is an experienced consultant and agile leader with 14 years delivering front-end, accessibility, and organizational change across Europe. He combines hands-on UI and accessibility expertise—shaping design systems and WCAG-compliant products—with servant leadership as a Scrum Master and team lead. His work spans public sector e-services, B2B product launches, and large-scale agile transformations across distributed, cross-cultural teams. Aki is skilled at bridging UX, engineering and product, reducing waste and accelerating delivery while embedding accessibility and continuous improvement into teams. He brings a multidisciplinary background including an MSc in Information Systems and formal music training, a combination that informs his focus on mindfulness, team dynamics and clear communication. Based in Malmö, he’s known for scaling teams, launching award-nominated e-services, and quietly instilling sustainable accessibility practices into development workflows.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
drums piano (jazz) harmony and composition, drums piano (jazz) harmony and composition at University of the Arts HelsinkiSvenska som andraspråk 3 Swedish, Svenska som andraspråk 3 Swedish at Komvux MalmöMSc in Economics and Business Administration Information Systems Science Multimedia Economics Marketing HCI Music Art History Philosophy, MSc in Economics and Business Administration Information Systems Science Multimedia Economics Marketing HCI Music Art History Philosophy at University of JyväskyläDanish, Danish at VoksenUddannelsescenter Frederiksberg (VUF)
English, Swedish, Finnish, French
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Github Skills (32)
architecture9
accessibility9
lighthouse9
debugging9
module-loader9
loader9
axe9
wcag9
browserify8
preprocessor8
browser8
chrome8
javascript8
testing8
nodejs7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akikoo/webpack-es6-sass-setup
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
akikoo/accessibility-testing-tools
Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
A collection of useful tools for accessibility testing and debugging in the browser, online and desktop
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
browsertestinguseful-toolsa11ylighthouse
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