Summary
Olli Salonen is an engineering team lead and hands-on staff engineer with 10+ years building data platforms, streaming systems and distributed architectures across startups and large enterprises. He blends practical expertise in Databricks/Spark, Kafka and Python/Scala with leadership experience running data teams, P&L-aware technology units, and hands-on delivery from prototyping to production. At Zalando he built a data competency from scratch and at DoorDash/Wolt he focuses on global Data Developer Experience, unifying scalable, compliant data workloads. Comfortable in both startup-like and corporate settings, he excels leading small, focused teams that bridge business strategy and technical reality while nudging architectures forward. His background spans cloud-native operations (Kubernetes, Terraform), microservices and embedded/mobile roots, giving him an unusually broad technical lens for data-first platform design. He also brings board-level and consultancy experience, having run tech strategy workshops and large-scale assessments involving stakeholders from CIOs to dev teams.
10 years of coding experience