Heikki Verta
Chief Technology Officer at Supercell
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolHeikki Verta is a hands-on technology leader and Chief Technology Officer at Supercell with over 20 years in software development and more than a decade of engineering leadership within the games industry. He champions software craftsmanship and lean practices while coordinating shared tech across Supercell’s game teams, from analytics and developer tools to player-facing services like Supercell ID. His background spans performance benchmarking at Futuremark, scalable ad and cross-promotion systems at Applifier and Unity-era video ad-serving, and research into distributed and mobile systems at Nokia—giving him deep expertise in high-throughput, reliable back-end architectures. Known for bridging data science and engineering, he combines practical coding with strategic platform thinking to keep teams aligned and shipping. Based in Helsinki, he pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering with a career-long focus on robust, production-grade systems that scale for millions of players.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Technology) Computer and Information Science Software Engineering Strategy and International Business, Master of Science (Technology) Computer and Information Science Software Engineering Strategy and International Business at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Finnish, English
Github Skills (14)
cytoscape10
amazon9
diagram9
aws-services9
amazon-kinesis8
security8
amazon-web-services8
aws8
aws-lambda7
producer6
interceptor3
apache2
ads1
unity3d1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
heikkiv/carl
Sep 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 4 days
heikkiv/cloudmapper
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
diagramsenvironmentsaws
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