Heikki Nousiainen
Field-CTO & Co-founder at Aiven
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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RockstarHeikki Nousiainen is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 11 years in product and executive roles and two decades of hands-on engineering experience in cloud, security, and distributed systems. As Field-CTO and former CTO of Aiven, he helped build a global managed open-source data platform powering Kafka, PostgreSQL, Cassandra and more across major cloud providers. Heikki previously drove cloud adoption and DevOps transformation at F-Secure, designing fault-tolerant, self-healing deployments and a high-performance KVM test cloud that ran thousands of VMs daily. His background spans deep engineering (from SSH and update agents to orchestration blueprints) through company-wide architecture governance, giving him rare breadth from low-level systems to platform strategy. Based in Helsinki, he blends startup founder grit with enterprise-grade architectural discipline and an emphasis on operational resilience. A quiet inventor at heart, he has repeatedly translated security and testing challenges into scalable production platforms.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (65)
postgresql10
sink10
python-client10
backup10
cloud-object-storage10
database-backups10
google-cloud-logging10
message-pump10
cli10
kafka10
producer10
faust10
apache-kafka10
aws-cloudwatch10
aiven10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Aiven-Open/aiven-kafka-restore
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Aiven Kafka Restore Utility
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
restore-utilityrestoreaivenkafka-connectkafka
hnousiainen/pghoard
Aug 2015 - Dec 2024
PostgreSQL backup and restore service
Contributions:65 pushes, 28 branches in 9 years 5 months
incrementalpostgresql-backuprestorepostgrespostgresql
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