Summary
Markku Pulkkinen is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with two decades of experience translating business needs into secure, scalable solution architectures across mobile, financial services and consumer domains. He has led product and architecture teams at Nokia and several startups, driving vendor selection, due diligence and platform designs for large-scale, financial-grade systems and protocol standardization. Known for assembling and managing diverse in-house and virtual teams—architects, engineers, product managers, security and UX specialists—he bridges legal, IPR and standards stakeholders to make complex concepts implementable. Currently focused on athlete-performance measurement solutions and blockchain apps, he combines hands-on technical innovation with pragmatic product management. Based in Helsinki, he brings a rare mix of deep security and telecom-era protocol expertise together with entrepreneurial experience in founding and scaling technology ventures.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
bsc Automation engineering, bsc Automation engineering at Oulu University of Applied Sciences