Ari Palo
Lead Technologist at Alma Media
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Palo is a Lead Technologist with 14 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native architectures, DevOps pipelines, and full-stack web services for Alma Media’s portfolio of 100+ sites. He combines deep practical skills in AWS and GCP (certified), serverless, IaC and developer tooling with leadership in cloud adoption, training and technical advocacy. Known for shipping resilient systems in TypeScript/Node.js, Go and Python, he also shapes shared services and developer onboarding programs across the enterprise. An AWS-recognized Community Builder and public speaker, he elevates developer culture through in-house training initiatives like Alma LevelUp. His background in graphic design and early work on on-premise device labs gives him a rare blend of UX sensibility and infrastructure pragmatism. Colleagues rely on him to translate business needs into scalable, production-ready solutions while mentoring the next generation of cloud architects.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Few years of Media Engineering (digital media) studies, Few years of Media Engineering (digital media) studies at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesMultimedia Art & Technology, Multimedia Art & Technology at Fachhochschule Salzburg
Github Skills (171)
python10
yubikey10
swagger10
security10
aws-sts10
credential-provider10
bundler10
authenticator10
rest-api10
serverless10
openapi10
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
serverless-applications10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
almamedia/browserstack-e2e-starter-kit
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:110 commits, 1 push in 9 months
testingmochajsto-dobrowserstacke2e-testing
alma-cdk/cross-region-parameter
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Store SSM Parameter into another AWS Region with AWS CDK
Contributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
awsaws-cdkssmcdkcross-region
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