Summary
Jami Karvanen is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Helsinki with 11 years of experience building and evolving platforms that empower engineering teams. After rising through hands-on roles in infrastructure and operations—from support and software engineering to senior DevOps and platform leadership at Yle—he intentionally stepped down from a team lead role to return to deep technical work. Jami combines practical operational experience from companies like Unity and Topcon with a university grounding in computer science, favoring pragmatic, scalable solutions over buzzwords. He is known for translating operational needs into reliable platform capabilities and for prioritizing proximity to code and systems in order to drive measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer science at University of Helsinki