Summary
Markus Rauhala is a seasoned software and product leader based in Tampere, Finland, with over 18 years in the software business and a decade of leadership experience building award-winning e-permitting SaaS for municipalities. Currently Country Director for Cloudpermit Finland, he has progressed from UX researcher and designer at Nokia to product and engineering leadership roles, combining deep user-experience sensibility with operational oversight of sales, marketing, product management and engineering teams. He has led teams of 10–17 engineers through international expansion into North America while carrying overall information security and product delivery responsibility. Known for translating real end-user insights into scalable SaaS products, Markus also teaches and mentors—bringing academic lecturing and hands-on research experience to commercial product strategy. A practical, user-centered leader, he quietly leverages a background in economics, information systems and translation technology to bridge technical, design and stakeholder perspectives.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
German studies and translation IT technology for translators, German studies and translation IT technology for translators at University of Eastern Finland
B.Sc. Econ. Information Systems Science User-friendly Information Technology, B.Sc. Econ. Information Systems Science User-friendly Information Technology at University of Jyväskylä
Finnish, English, German, Swedish