Petri Avikainen is a Helsinki-based software engineer with 11 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping customer-facing software. He progressed from trainee and developer roles into leadership as VP of Engineering at Kaiku Health, and now contributes hands-on at Swarmia, blending team-level delivery coaching with coding. His background spans startups and scale-oriented product companies, giving him a pragmatic view of product, quality and operational needs. Petri holds an MSc in Technology from the University of Turku and is comfortable moving between code, architecture and cross-functional collaboration. A detail that’s not immediately obvious: his career path shows a steady mix of technical depth and people leadership, reflecting an engineer who scales both systems and teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Technology, Master of Science in Technology at Turun yliopisto
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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