Summary
Kyösti Herrala is a pragmatic technology leader with 14 years of experience, currently directing R&D at Visma where he drives innovation in cloud-based access control and secure IoT hardware for the Megaflex product line. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from embedded systems and signal processing—to senior roles in platform, DevOps and solution architecture at Vincit, delivering reliable production services and ITSM practices. Kyösti is comfortable bridging sales, cloud offerings and technical delivery, having led AWS-focused cloud capability and performed architecture, security and well-architected audits. Known for enjoying the post-go-live phase, he favours operational excellence and measurable customer impact over theoretical designs. Based in Tampere, he brings a rare mix of embedded-device expertise and modern cloud-native approaches to connected security products.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Embedded systems Distributed systems, Master’s Degree Embedded systems Distributed systems at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
English, Swedish, Finnish