Antti Akonniemi
Comedian at Vapaus
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolAntti Akonniemi is a Helsinki-based digital strategist and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience helping organizations reinvent themselves through UX, service design and technical delivery. He has founded and led multiple ventures—from running web and mobile shops to serving as CEO of WODconnect and Kisko Ventures—while also directing product teams at Kisko Labs to build high-quality web products. His background in quality engineering and test management at companies like F-Secure and IBM gives him a practical, detail-oriented approach to reliable implementations and continuous delivery. As an advisor and evangelist he blends business model design with hands-on execution, often bridging strategy and engineering in the same engagement. Unconventionally for a tech leader, he also performs as a comedian, bringing storytelling and audience insight to workshops and client engagements. That mix of technical rigor, product leadership and stage-honed communication makes him effective at turning ambiguous digital challenges into tangible services and apps.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
ScrumMaster CertificationHelsinki Business Polytechnic
Github Skills (43)
captcha10
shopify10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
payment-processing10
payment10
spree10
square10
adyen10
ecommerce9
merchant9
ruby9
rails9
text-files9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kiskolabs/offsite_payments
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
A simple and unified API to handle dozens of different offsite payment pages.
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
apipaymentspayment-gatewaypaymentunified-api
akonan/reference_number
Sep 2012 - Jul 2018
Ruby library for calculating reference number (viitenumere, referensnummer).
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 10 months
rubyprecisionreference-numberruby-libraryunlock
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