Miika Hakala
Founder & CEO at BucketList
Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMiika Hakala is a seasoned software leader and founder with over a decade of experience building product-driven companies from Finland’s Ostrobothnia region. As Founder & CEO of BucketList since 2012 and former CTO/SVP of Engineering at Cavai, he blends entrepreneurial vision with hands-on technical leadership in consumer communities and conversational advertising. His background spans product ownership, R&D and hands-on development in healthcare systems, where he worked with Python, SQL and integrations like HL7—skills that inform a pragmatic, data-aware approach to product design. Miika is comfortable moving between strategy and code, having led teams through product launches, customer-driven R&D and scaling engineering orgs. He brings a rare mix of public-community building (BucketList.net) and enterprise-grade product management, plus an academic foundation with an M.Sc. in Computer Science.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Åbo Akademi University
Swedish, Finnish, English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (57)
javascript10
cordova-android10
ionic10
apache-cordova10
vue10
react10
angular10
directive10
cordova9
ui-components9
react-native9
ios9
java9
stencil9
progressive9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MrHakala/mrhakala.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:170 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
MrHakala/jelpi
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 6 branches in 12 days
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