Jesse Haka
Co-Founder at Optivian
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Haka is a cloud-native engineer and serial founder with nine years of experience building production-grade infrastructure and developer platforms from Finland. As Co-Founder of Optivian and CEO of Koodiputka, he combines hands-on back-end and DevOps expertise with product leadership to deliver Kubernetes-as-a-Service, DNS/Healthcheck platforms, and cloud migration tooling. At Elisa he shaped SRE practices and co-led Kubernetes kOps and the OpenStack cloud provider, contributing notable fixes and metrics to widely used projects like kops and the Kubernetes OpenStack integrations. His work blends systems-level troubleshooting (disk-by-id lookups, volume attach retries, device path logic) with pragmatic observability improvements, reflecting a focus on reliability and operability. Trained at Aalto University, he pairs academic grounding in networking and cloud economics with practical open-source influence across Kubernetes, Envoy, Mattermost and Traefik.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Network Economics WWW technologies Cloud services, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Network Economics WWW technologies Cloud services at Aalto University
Finnish, English
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
controller-manager10
cloud-manager10
apidoc10
manager10
load-balancing10
etcd10
infrastructure-management10
go10
openstack10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
kube-controller-manager10
devops10
k8s10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 212 reviews, 54 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the OpenStack cloud provider for Kubernetes. Their work involved modifying existing code to remove server status filtering, fixing issues with the `isNotFound` error handling, and adding metrics to the cinder volume plugin. They also implemented the `InstanceShutdownByProviderID` method and added functionality for specifying connection limits and floating IP subnet within the load balancer service. These changes reflect a focus on improving the functionality and stability of the OpenStack integration.
k8s-sig-storagecsi-plugink8s-sig-cloud-providerkubernetesopenstack
kubernetes/kops
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:310 reviews, 300 commits, 278 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on back-end development within the `kubernetes/kops` repository, specifically contributing to core infrastructure management and OpenStack support. They implemented features related to keypair roles and authentication, as well as implementing etcd status for OpenStack. The user also made changes to improve the infrastructure and build processes by fixing Bazel configurations and improving the code base by fixing gofmt.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
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