Summary
Mika Vakula is a Helsinki-based software engineer with 11 years of experience combining hands-on coding, product thinking, and organizational leadership. Currently at Swarmia, he has a track record of building teams and shipping software across consultancy and startup environments, including senior roles at Reaktor and CTO duties at Tocoman. He’s equally comfortable writing clean, pragmatic code and shaping company culture—his master’s thesis and recruiting history reflect a long-standing interest in organizational change and people development. A former founder and CEO, he brings entrepreneurial grit and measurable business outcomes to engineering decisions. Notably, he balances technical craft with hiring intuition, often bridging gaps between product, engineering, and growth.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. (Tech.), M.Sc. (Tech.) at Aalto University
English, Finnish, French, Swedish