Jussi Niemelä
Henderson, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJussi Niemelä is a seasoned technical program and product leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling global engineering organizations across Nokia and Microsoft. He combines deep hands-on knowledge of R&D tooling, SW build and update pipelines, and IoT device lifecycle with 15+ years of people management, having ramped multiple teams and introduced repeatable ways of working. At Microsoft he led Azure Arc and Intelligent Edge programs that connect on-prem and multi-cloud infrastructure to Azure, driving deploy-at-scale, provisioning, and release management capabilities. His background includes improving Lumia SW logistics (raising build success from ~80% to 95%+) and orchestrating partner-facing Windows pre-release programs, showing a knack for operational excellence in high-stakes delivery. Now on a career break in Henderson, Nevada, he remains closely attuned to cloud, edge and AI trends while enjoying hands-on projects and life outside the office. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who turns complex cross-functional challenges into measurable, automated solutions.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration, Marketing, Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration, Marketing at Salo Business CollegeBachelor of business administration, Enterprise’s information management solutions, Bachelor of business administration, Enterprise’s information management solutions at Turku University of Applied Sciences
English, Finnish, German
Github Skills (7)
azure9
microsoft8
microsoft-azure8
jekyll7
machine-learning7
computer-vision6
gatsby6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ai-at-edge
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Web pages for AI@Edge community
Contributions:199 commits, 2 PRs, 80 pushes in 5 months
edge-aimachine-learningedge
Azure/Vision-AI-DevKit-Pages
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Peabody landing page
Contributions:121 commits, 3 PRs, 184 pushes in 1 year
gatsbyjekyll
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