Olli Jarva is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and building resilient backend systems for cloud-native and robotics applications. He has led core infrastructure and managed-database automation across major public clouds at Aiven and improved routing, communications, and low-level shared services for autonomous fleets at Starship, combining hands-on coding with architectural leadership. Comfortable working independently or as a technical lead, he focuses on pragmatic engineering practices—code review, automated testing, and thoughtful design—while driving large-scale architectural change from the trenches. Based in Espoo, Finland, he blends deep systems and ops experience dating back to early sysadmin and embedded/mobile roles with a penchant for hands-on problem solving. Outside work he’s a food enthusiast, diver, sailor and rock climber, reflecting a taste for technical challenges and adventurous teamwork.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Aalto University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Upper secondary school, Upper secondary school at Päivölä school of mathematics
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 6 months
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