Niko Kivelä
Head Of DevOps at Tech Nordic Advocates
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolNiko Kivelä is a Head of DevOps with 13+ years of experience helping large organizations transform software delivery through coaching, CI/CD automation, and developer experience. He combines deep hands-on programming and cloud expertise with organizational design—creating engineering handbooks, company-wide development guidelines, and measurable delivery practices that scale across teams. Known for leading DevOps & Developer Experience at SOK and previously shaping cloud and platform practices at Finnair, he focuses on flow, feedback and continuous learning to make teams more effective. A practiced public speaker and startup mentor, he brings a rare mix of technical craft (beautiful code and scalable data systems) and facilitation skills for workshops, blameless post-mortems and cultural change. Not obvious from the title: he actively measures and standardizes delivery metrics to turn soft practices into repeatable, data-informed improvements.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Corporal, Corporal at The Finnish Defence ForcesInformation Technology, Information Technology at Mikkeli University of Applied ScienceBachelor Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology at Haaga-Helia University of Applied ScienceTokyo Central Language SchoolVehkalahden lukioMaster’s Degree The Department of Computer Science, Master’s Degree The Department of Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Finnish
Github Skills (23)
aws-credentials9
credentials9
fetch8
sts8
php-cs-fixer7
static-analysis7
aws7
php7
php-codesniffer6
minimum6
continuous-integration6
azure5
mercurial5
toolbox4
cd4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
s-group-dev/development-guidelines
Jul 2021 - May 2022
This is a high-level document containing a collection of best practices, commonalities between projects and values proven to be practical.
Contributions:5 reviews, 65 commits, 32 PRs in 10 months
best-ofdocument-levelhigh-levelpractical
tovrleaf/zsh-files
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 7 months
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