Marko Karppinen
Founder & CEO at Richie
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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SeniorMarko Karppinen is a Helsinki-based founder and CEO with over 8 years of experience leading product and engineering teams in digital media and native app development. He founded Richie, a 12-person startup delivering cross-platform components and bespoke reading experiences—rich media advertising, analytics and publishing tools—used by leading Nordic publishers. Prior to Richie he led one of Finland’s pioneering iOS/Cocoa teams at Marko Karppinen & Co., carrying that core expertise into mobile-first publishing solutions. His career traces back to early web and concept development roles in the late 1990s, giving him rare depth across web, native apps and media product design. Notably, he blends hands-on technical leadership with a sustained focus on monetization and content presentation for post-PC platforms.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (72)
fastcgi10
haproxy10
proxy-protocol10
ipv610
telemetry10
caching10
monitoring9
high-performance9
high-availability9
reverse-proxy9
proxy9
http9
etl9
cloud-native9
stream-processing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
richiefi/skipscale
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Scale and crop images, skip steps when possible
Contributions:29 releases, 9 reviews, 70 commits in 2 years 1 month
crop-image
richiefi/alpine-awscli
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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