Kai Kousa
Head Of Engineering at Kaikkitoimitilat.fi / NoofLab
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Kousa is a Helsinki-based Head of Engineering with 18 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, leading cross-functional teams, and shipping resilient SaaS systems. At Epassi he now oversees global platform development and shapes strategic R&D initiatives, after scaling teams and AWS infrastructure at Hintsa and earlier Alma Media. He combines hands-on engineering—microservices, DevOps and AWS—with people leadership, talent development and process improvements that boost team autonomy and delivery quality. Kai also partners as a tech advisor to small startups, architecting cost-effective product landscapes and implementing the first microservices and automation for lean R&D budgets. Known for pragmatic tooling (e.g., internal sprint/Jira automations) and improving pull-request and review processes, he brings an operator’s mindset to both startups and established organizations. Fluent in guiding multicultural teams, he focuses on measurable impact: faster sprints, clearer technical tasks, and reliable production systems.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Software Development, Bachelor of Engineering Software Development at Helsingin Ammattikorkeakoulu Stadia
English, Finnish
Github Skills (28)
python9
ansible9
ssh8
devops7
automation7
ansible-role6
infrastructure-as-code6
react5
vagrant5
packer5
circleci5
linux5
testing5
docker5
network-configuration4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kaikousa/node-gamepad
Oct 2019 - Apr 2023
node-gamepad is a package for node that allows you to effortlessly interface your node applications with a variety of gamepad controllers.
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
gamepadcontrollersnodejsnpmvariety
kaikousa/video-editing-engine
Feb 2008 - Feb 2009
Contributions:171 commits in 1 year
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