Summary
Juho Hietala is a pragmatic tech founder and CTO with 12 years of experience designing and building end-to-end information systems and user interfaces, currently leading product and engineering at Kaizen Recruit and Pacific Reach Advisors from Amsterdam. He blends hands-on software development (Meteor/NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS Lambda) and microservice architecture with a strong focus on interaction design, information architecture and practical automation that cuts recruiting workflows by more than half. As a co-founder of a bootstrapped HR Tech startup for the Japan market, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with product-minded engineering to turn talent acquisition into scalable online marketing. Juho also brings rare cross-disciplinary depth from his background in music publishing and sound engineering, which informs his attention to UX detail and systems that harmonize people and technology. He regularly manages multi-developer teams and integrates diverse third-party services to deliver polished, production-grade platforms. Known for taking on tasks that span tech, human interaction and art, he thrives where multidisciplinary skills are required.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Finnish