Summary
Jaana Kulmala is a founder and systems thinker with 11 years of professional experience building SaaS analytics and complex UI systems, best known for founding and exiting FirstOfficer.io in 2019. She blends deep technical roots in Java UI engineering from long tenures at Nokia/Nokia Siemens with entrepreneurial product instincts and analytics for Stripe-backed businesses. Currently her work explores flow-based systems—attention in human power dynamics and global power-and-money flows—reflecting a rare mix of technical pattern thinking and social systems inquiry. A certified positive psychology practitioner and co-founder of Tensegrity Balance, she brings human-centered values—equal rights, climate, trauma healing and embodiment—into product and research. Based in Tampere, Finland, she has a pragmatic history spanning software design, accounting, and startup building, and a clear drive to make hidden dynamics visible.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (tradenomi), Business, Computer Science, Bachelor of Business Administration (tradenomi), Business, Computer Science at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland
English, Spanish, Swedish