Juha Litola
Co-Founder, Chief Architect at Juhan koodi Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJuha Litola is a seasoned software leader and hands-on architect with 14+ years building and scaling SaaS platforms, startups, and growth-stage engineering organizations from Helsinki. As Co-Founder and Chief Architect of GitHits and a freelance hands-on CTO, he blends deep full‑stack engineering (TypeScript, Elixir, Scala, Kotlin, Ruby) with pragmatic architecture and team-building to deliver product-focused, scalable systems. He has a proven track record slicing monoliths, designing data- and event-driven architectures, and guiding startups through technical due diligence and rapid product launches. Juha is particularly interested in applying AI tools to improve developer workflows and recently built a code example engine that helps AI coding agents find real-world solutions in open source. Comfortable across databases, cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD, he combines broad technical curiosity with the discipline of an experienced architect and operator.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Github Skills (84)
drag10
sortable10
javascript10
splitter10
jquery10
react-dnd10
draggable10
lists10
drag-and-drop10
droppable10
directives9
pipeline8
sass8
css8
mustache8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jlitola/play-sass
May 2012 - Nov 2018
Sass asset handling for Play Framework 2.0 *DEPRECATED*
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 6 years 7 months
sasscssplay-frameworkhandlingasset
jlitola/vimrc
Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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