Summary
Ilari Mäkimattila is a pragmatic Lead Software Architect based in Zurich with over two decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in senior engineering and leadership roles building cloud-native, high-throughput web platforms. He combines full-stack polyglot coding (Python, Rust, TypeScript, C++, Go, etc.) with architecture and DevOps craft—most recently migrating a monolith to Kubernetes, cutting operating costs by up to 40% and introducing continuous delivery and observability. Comfortable wearing multiple hats, he still codes daily while leading teams, recruiting, and working directly with product and customers. He has a strong interest in IoT, low-latency systems and optimizing engineering performance, demonstrated by shipping drone fleet management, event platforms and payment integrations across his career. A founder-turned-architect, he brings entrepreneurial pragmatism from building products solo to scaling them for production. Colleagues value him for turning fuzzy requirements into automated, maintainable delivery pipelines that save hours of repetitive work.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Software technology at Lahti University of Applied Sciences
Finnish, English, Swedish, German