Niko Kurtti
Principal Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Fuengirola, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolNiko Kurtti is a Principal Software Developer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, high-security platform engineering solutions across startups, hyperscale scaleups and enterprises. He specialises in developer velocity, container technologies, observability and security, having designed developer-first platforms on GCP and production container runtimes (GKE, self-hosted k8s) and led migrations from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes. Niko pairs hands-on contributions to open-source projects—such as core configuration and Envoy integration work on the widely used Emissary Ingress—with strategic platform architecture and automation using CRDs and GitHub Actions. Based in Fuengirola, Spain, he’s known for improving team velocity not just through tooling but by shaping roadmaps and hardening controls, and he prefers pragmatic modern solutions over dogma.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software engineering Information security, Master's degree Software engineering Information security at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
English, Finnish
Github Skills (13)
env10
api-management10
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
api-gateway10
python10
convoy10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
kubernetes-ingress9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Niko primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Emissary Ingress project, focusing on configuration and feature enhancements. Their work included making configuration directories and the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE tunable, and fixing hardcoded paths. The user also added support for adding and removing response headers and implemented the server_name override feature. They modified envoy configuration templates and core application code, demonstrating expertise in Envoy configuration and API gateway implementation.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
n1koo/kubexit
Oct 2020 - May 2023
Command supervisor for coordinated Kubernetes pod container termination.
Contributions:5 pushes, 7 branches, 12 tags in 2 years 7 months
hands-onterminationdockerk8skubernetes
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