Lauri Hynynen is a Helsinki-based startup operator, founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building products, teams and businesses from early prototypes to scaled platforms. He combines hands-on engineering—ranging from front-end work like improving an AngularJS payments module—to executive product and CTO roles where he set strategy, hired teams and drove data and analytics initiatives. Lauri co-founded multiple startups (one acquired) and raised pre-seed funding for an AI briefing product that was later acquihired, giving him a pragmatic mix of fundraising, product-market fit and exit experience. Currently on sabbatical, he consults early-stage teams while exploring new ideas, bringing a rare blend of tactical coding chops and long-term strategic thinking. Notably, he’s comfortable switching between detailed UI fixes and high-level platform vision, making him effective across the stack and lifecycle of startup growth.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Marketing, Master of Science (MSc) Marketing at Aalto University
Etelä-Tapiolan lukio
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Module that provides AngularJS-directives for formatting, validating and working with payments
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lauri primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the AngularJS-based payment module. Their contributions included fixing a bug in the card number input by restricting the input to only numbers. They also updated the example files and libraries used by the module. Furthermore, the user implemented updates by moving existing fixes.
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