Esa Nuurtamo
Lead Engineer (AI) at Vertical
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolEsa Nuurtamo is a Lead Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM applications and modern web stacks, with 11 years of experience turning messy real-world problems into AI-powered products. He’s shipped AI-first CRM features as a founding engineer, built website-scraping bot builders and customer service solutions at Reaktor, and delivered generative-AI features for enterprise clients like Sanity and HBO. Esa combines startup MVP discipline from founding Hobiver with enterprise-grade reliability—Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability and secure patterns for sensitive data. He focuses on practical building blocks (ingestion, RAG, evaluation loops, reusable components) and on making systems debuggable and operable in production. Equally comfortable sketching product requirements with customers as he is implementing the architecture, he brings an entrepreneurial and music-producer background that fuels unconventional ideas while demanding craftsmanship. Based in Helsinki, he’s currently shaping repeatable, security-first AI offerings for healthcare and developer tools that make AI development faster and safer.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (74)
cms10
realtime10
sanity10
structured-content10
workspaces10
react10
javascript8
react-components8
material-ui8
transaction8
ruby7
typescript7
android7
psql7
nodejs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
EsaNuurtamo/dotfiles
Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
EsaNuurtamo/Huutokauppa
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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