Lauri Piispanen
Senior Server Engineer at Supercell
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolLauri Piispanen is a Senior Server Engineer based in Helsinki with 14 years of hands-on experience building high-performance, globally distributed cloud systems and leading engineering teams. He co-founded and served as CTO of Starcart, architecting an AI-driven e-commerce backend that automated ingestion and categorization of 20+ million products and cut cloud costs dramatically via a cloud-to-hybrid transition. Equally fluent in backend, frontend, DevOps and ML pipelines, he has repeatedly optimized CI/CD and build systems (notably shaving tens of percent off game build times) and tuned real-time, event-driven architectures for massive scale. Lauri combines deep low-level performance debugging with pragmatic AWS multi-account, container-first designs and experience implementing secure contractor workflows. He’s a proven builder of engineering orgs—hiring 100+ engineers, founding a major office, and advising a spinoff that later IPO’d—who approaches systems engineering with the long-game discipline he applies to improving his half-marathon time.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Engineering/Industrial Management, Master's Degree Engineering/Industrial Management at M.Eng., Metropolia University of Applied SciencesBachelor's Degree Engineering/Media Technology, Bachelor's Degree Engineering/Media Technology at B.Eng., Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (81)
api10
shrink10
cli10
github-graphql10
webhooks10
graphql-api9
grails9
browser9
create-react-native-app9
react9
graphql9
airtable9
whiteboard9
charts8
react-native-web8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lauripiispanen/smallerpdf
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
A shrink-your-PDFs service that can be installed in Heroku with a single click
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year
herokupdfinstalledpdfsshrink
lauripiispanen/kaupunkifillarit-ios
Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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