Jari Jaanto
Co-Founder, Head Of Product Development & CTO at IRC-Galleria
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJari Jaanto is a seasoned startup founder and technology leader with 13 years of experience building high-volume social platforms and AI-driven products from Helsinki. As Co-Founder and CTO of Ellie Technologies he leads product development and R&D for an ISO 27001 certified collaborative AI data-modeling platform used across healthcare, telco, energy and IT to validate data initiatives before costly engineering work. His track record includes founding IRC-Galleria — once used by the majority of Finnish teens — and scaling teams and ad-tech to serve hundreds of thousands of weekly users, as well as exits and acquisitions with Ninchat and Poiju. Jari combines hands-on engineering, product ownership and growth-stage operational experience with mentoring roles at accelerators and universities, bridging academic teaching and applied startup practice. An unconventional detail: he started as a demoscene musician/programmer and has trained corporate teams in practical data science and Azure ML, reflecting a blend of creative technical roots and enterprise-level data expertise.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master Leader Leadership, Master Leader Leadership at Finnish Leadership AcademyMaster of Science (Econ) Economics and Business Administration, Master of Science (Econ) Economics and Business Administration at Aalto UniversityStudies in Psychology, Studies in Psychology at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (3)
web-application3
security2
internet1
Github contributions (5)
jahva/ellietest
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:25 pushes in 26 days
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