Mikko Saari
SVP, Nordic Markets at aTalent
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolMikko Saari is a veteran Nordic technology executive with nine years in leadership at Sofigate, currently serving as Vice President leading a 230+ expert unit driving full-service technology transformations across the Nordics. He combines commercial P&L ownership and GTM innovation with hands-on experience designing managed service platforms that integrate ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle and AI agents into an industrialized delivery backbone. His background spans strategic planning, M&A carve-outs, enterprise architecture, and large-scale sourcing projects—many valued between €2M and €100M+—giving him rare fluency across strategy, procurement and platform delivery. Earlier in his career he co-founded a hardware startup out of Aalto University and led multidisciplinary product development teams, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and engineering rigor. Based in Helsinki, he also develops the popular Relevanssi search plugins and brings a creator’s mindset and board-level perspective to growth-stage challenges. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who translates complex transformation goals into repeatable, platform-first business models.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto UniversitySecond Lieutenant (Conscript), Anti-tank platoon leader, Second Lieutenant (Conscript), Anti-tank platoon leader at Finnish Defence Forces
Finnish, Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
gutenberg10
opengraph10
live-search10
seo10
wordpress10
yoast10
advanced-custom-fields10
xml-sitemap10
snowball10
plugin10
wordpress-plugin10
cookieless9
google-analytics9
woocommerce9
metadata9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
msaari/relevanssi-premium-snowball-stemmer
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Snowball Stemmer for Relevanssi Premium
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 11 months
snowballstemmer
msaari/relevanssi
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Relevanssi, a WordPress plugin to improve the search
Contributions:2 reviews, 876 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 7 months
wordpress-plugin
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