Matias Käkelä
Tech Principal, Shared Services, Data And Integrations
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolMatias Käkelä is a Tech Principal with 17 years of hands-on experience shaping data, integration and shared services architecture at RELEX Solutions, currently focusing on unifying internal and external data flows. He combines deep JVM, Ruby and TypeScript expertise with practical leadership of architecture boards, data mesh initiatives, Kafka deployments and Azure-powered data platforms. Equally comfortable in strategic governance and in-the-weeds implementation, he has a track record of designing enterprise-grade APIs, real-time pipelines and performant services. Matias enjoys liberating data from silos and lately experiments with making legacy codebases AI-agent friendly, bringing an uncommon blend of systems thinking and playful curiosity. With an MSc in Computer Science and a taste for single malt, he pairs rigorous technical judgment with human-focused collaboration.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Matriculation, High School Matriculation at Helsingin Suomalainen YhteiskouluM.Sc. Computer Science Leadership Mathematics Statistics, M.Sc. Computer Science Leadership Mathematics Statistics at University of Helsinki
Swedish, English, Finnish
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Github Skills (109)
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python9
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iphone9
swift8
home-automation8
jruby8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
massive/hassio-espruinohub
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Hass.io add-on for EspruinoHub
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
add-onhass
massive/acdc
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes in 1 month
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