Summary
Otto Vehviläinen is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on development and product engineering experience, currently heading RELEX Plan Engineering in Helsinki. He has a track record of scaling and organizing large engineering teams—having led 100–150+ engineers across product domains at RELEX and Smartly.io—while keeping a developer mindset informed by full‑stack experience. His background spans backend systems, frontend product work, and data-heavy features (e.g., reporting backends and query engines), which helps him bridge customer needs and technical execution for B2B SaaS. Otto is passionate about understanding complex systems and honing ways of working that reliably deliver quality software, not just features. He moves between strategic leadership and nitty-gritty engineering decisions, having grown teams from dozens to hundreds and restructured organizations around product focus. Outside org design, he’s drawn to getting close to customers and translating that insight into practical, scalable engineering solutions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering physics, Engineering physics at Aalto University
Highschool, Highschool at Helsingin luonnontiedelukio
English, Finnish, German, Swedish