Niko Kivelä
Head Of Developer Experience at Tech Nordic Advocates
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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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
21 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 (11)
aws-credentials9
azuread9
static-analysis6
php6
continuous-integration6
code-standards5
cd4
git3
choices3
react2
continuous-delivery2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tovrleaf/vim-files
Aug 2016 - Jan 2026
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 6 months
tovrleaf/zsh-files
May 2017 - Sep 2025
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 4 months
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