Matti Parviainen
CPO, Founder at FRENN
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMatti Parviainen is a Helsinki-based CPO and founder with 11 years of professional experience designing user-centred digital products and leading UX-driven consultancies. He builds tools that help agency and consulting leaders run efficient, people-first businesses, combining product strategy with hands-on UI and service design. His background spans startups and scale-ups—from Flowdock and Wolt to co-founding Columbia Road—where he focused on mobile-first, goal-driven solutions that align design with business outcomes. Matti blends practical consulting experience with a research-informed M.Sc. in usability and software engineering, and he often mentors teams to adopt outcome-oriented processes. Independently bootstrapping Operating, he emphasizes fast iteration, co-creation and sustaining high team motivation as core competitive advantages. An unusual strength is his track record of moving between deep design craft and operational leadership, making him equally fluent in pixel-level UX decisions and company-level strategy.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Usability Software engineering Economics Design Management, M.Sc. Usability Software engineering Economics Design Management at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, German, Swedish, Finnish
Github Skills (8)
flowdock10
trading7
hubot7
chatbot4
nodejs2
react-components1
composition1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Flowdock-Chatops/demo-project
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
chatopschatdemo-project
gorillasauria/repofortesting
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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