Risto Laurikainen
Principal DevOps Consultant at Polar Squad
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolRisto Laurikainen is a Principal DevOps Consultant based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms, specialising in Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability. He blends hands-on engineering—Terraform, GitOps, Prometheus/Grafana—with leadership in platform team design, coaching, and organisational change to ensure technical solutions are adopted and continuously improved. Risto has led greenfield platform builds and migrations across AWS, Azure and hybrid environments, often acting as the bridge between architects, product teams and security/compliance needs. He frequently runs workshops and trainings to accelerate adoption and has practical experience preparing environments for certification like ISO 27001. Known for pairing deep technical work with pragmatic cultural change, he also brings a research-informed approach, applying State of DevOps/Accelerate principles to real-world transformations.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Aalto University
English, Finnish, Swedish, French
Github Skills (51)
virtual-machine9
ansible-role9
openstack-nova8
heat8
kvm8
csc8
nrpe7
rights7
gitlab-runner7
openstack-neutron7
openshift7
trigger7
elixir7
puppet7
gitlab6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
coderefinery/gitlab-openstack-deploy
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
An Ansible playbook to deploy a Gitlab Server on OpenStack (Specifically CSC's Pouta)
Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
ansiblecscgitlabopenstack
coderefinery/gitlab-runner
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
Ansible role for configuring GitLab runners
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 5 months
gitlab-apiansiblerunnersgitlabansible-role
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