Ismo Aro
CTO And Co-founder at NorthCode
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolIsmo Aro is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO at NorthCode with 15 years of experience modernizing how companies work through automation, agile practices, and continuous delivery. He has a strong background in test automation and software craftsmanship, having led teams and initiatives at Nokia, Ericsson, Basware, and Siili Solutions where he founded an autonomous Software Automation lab. As Chairman of the Robot Framework Foundation he helped steward a widely used open-source testing framework, reflecting his commitment to community-driven tooling and quality. Based in Stockholm, he combines hands-on technical leadership with coaching and organizational change skills to scale engineering competence across domains from automotive to finance. Notably, he pairs strategic product and team-building experience with practical toolsmithing—often driving cultural as well as technical transformations.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Business Informatics, Master of Engineering - MEng Business Informatics at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
English, Finnish
Github Skills (34)
networking10
robot10
network-protocol10
robotframework10
windows-gui10
python9
automation-framework8
windows7
rpa7
automation6
powershell5
issue-tracking5
testing5
selenium5
microsoft4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MarketSquare/Rammbock
Jul 2010 - Sep 2012
Rammbock - generic network protocol tester
Contributions:377 commits in 2 years 2 months
networkingprotocol-testergenericnetwork-protocol
Omenia/robotframework-whitelibrary
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019
Library for automating Windows GUI technologies with Robot Framework. WhiteLibrary wraps the White automation framework.
Contributions:111 commits, 40 PRs, 125 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pythonwindows-guitechnologieswindowswraps
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