Summary
Antti Pitkänen is a senior software engineer based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience building full-stack, DevOps, and cloud-native systems across startups and scaleups. He has held engineering and leadership roles from co-founding a tech startup to staff-level positions at Smartly.io and most recently builds AI-first people operations at Taito.ai. Antti combines deep backend expertise with system design and operational excellence, having shipped platforms and integrations using a wide range of technologies since the early 2000s. He is comfortable bridging product and infrastructure concerns—turning prototypes into reliable production services—and has a track record of mentoring teams while driving architecture decisions. Outside work he signals strong civic values and international awareness, supporting causes like Ukraine and Palestine, reflecting a broader sense of purpose alongside technical craft.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Software Business and Engineering, M.Sc, Software Business and Engineering at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan