Ilari Kallio
Co-Founder Interim Services at Several Companies & Organizations
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolIlari Kallio is a seasoned technology and operations executive with 20+ years of leadership across marine, manufacturing and energy sectors, now co-founding and running interim leadership and advisory ventures from Helsinki. He has led large global transformation programs as CDO at Konecranes and senior technology roles at Wärtsilä, building digital organizations, data science teams and new service businesses such as Vessel-as-a-Service. As an active angel investor and board chair, he helps scale deep-tech and SaaS startups—particularly in sales tech (CPQ), manufacturing cloud MES, and distributed AI for enterprise data. Ilari combines hands-on product and innovation management with operational rigor, having run R&D portfolios, lean transformations and EU-funded consortia. He pairs an Aalto M.Sc. and executive education with a practical appetite for pay-for-results leadership models through Cherry and Kick Serve. A lesser-known strength is his track record convening multi-stakeholder innovation ecosystems and turning research projects into commercial ventures.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering & Industrial Economics, M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering & Industrial Economics at Aalto UniversityExecutive MBA eMBA, Executive MBA eMBA at Aalto University Executive Education and Professional Development
Github Skills (11)
bitly8
url-parsing8
tinyurl7
shorturl6
nodejs5
url-shortener5
react4
python4
nginx3
javascript3
docker3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ilarikuoppala/onlinesnake
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Let's have some online snake fun!
Contributions:4 reviews, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 10 months
snakepythonlet
ilarikuoppala/lyli
Feb 2018 - Jul 2021
URL shortener
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
shortenertinyurlnodejsurl-shortenerbitly
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