Kim Salmi
CTO at Duunitori
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKim Salmi is a Helsinki-based CTO with two decades of software experience and a decade in senior leadership roles, specializing in SaaS and developer-focused products. He has led technical teams at Duunitori and Trustmary and sits on the board of MIX Nordic, combining hands-on engineering with strategic growth in niche industries like car importing. His background spans full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, and educational tech—building SaaS used by millions and gamified learning products. Early IT ops and support roles gave him deep operational fluency across Microsoft, VMware, Cisco and bespoke tooling, which informs pragmatic, maintainable architecture choices. Known for a developer-first mindset ("Developing stuff 🤓"), he blends rapid delivery with product intuition and a knack for automating manual workflows. He studied computer science at University of Helsinki and holds applied degrees in software development and IT, reflecting a balance of formal training and practical, ship-it experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesMerkonom Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration Financing Accounting & Information Technology, Merkonom Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration Financing Accounting & Information Technology at YI PrakticumMaster’s Degree studies (dropout) Computer Science, Master’s Degree studies (dropout) Computer Science at University of HelsinkiBachelor’s Degree Software Development, Bachelor’s Degree Software Development at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
Swedish, Finnish, English, German
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Github Skills (27)
getusermedia9
binaries9
homebrew9
job-search9
cli9
administration9
command-line-tool9
macos8
mediarecorder8
openseadragon8
mediarecorder-api7
api6
react5
django-admin5
jquery-ui5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
infr/OBDlite
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
macospython
infr/arduino
May 2017 - Mar 2025
Some random Arduino projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 10 months
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