Paavo Pokkinen
Principal Platform Engineer
Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
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Top SchoolPaavo Pokkinen is a Principal Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, leading teams, and aligning engineering work with business needs. He has owned PaaS roadmaps and implemented Kubernetes-based infrastructure, self-service portals, observability, CI/CD and a custom Magento 2 operator in Go while scaling delivery teams and improving development practices. As a founder and operator at Cartman Digital and brief CEO of Auree, he blends hands-on technical execution with product and operational leadership. Paavo is curious about AI, Clojure, and practical IoT applications—he built a floor-heating system that shifts consumption to real-time Nordpool prices—reflecting a knack for connecting systems engineering with real-world impact. Based in Oulu, Finland, he brings a pragmatic, collaborative approach to platform reliability, cost visibility, and developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
national high school programme, national high school programme at Oulun Lyseo Upper Secondary SchoolInformation Processing Science, Information Processing Science at University of Oulu
Finnish, English
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Github Skills (184)
controller10
security10
gatekeeper10
adobe10
k8s10
kustomize10
linux10
continuous-delivery10
validation10
magento10
helm10
pipeline10
conftest10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
maksuturva/magento_payment_module
Apr 2016 - Mar 2019
Maksuturva payment module for Magento Community Edition
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 years 11 months
community-editionpayment-modulemagento2adyenpayment
nko2/oulu
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:136 commits in 1 day
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