Sami Surakka
Lead Product Designer at Koodit ja koneet
Tampere Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolSami Surakka is a pragmatic, business-minded Lead Product Designer with a decade of experience shaping UX, service design and front-end delivery for startups and enterprise clients from the Tampere Metropolitan Area. He combines doctoral-level UX research with hands-on software engineering roots, enabling him to translate complex technical constraints into product outcomes that reduce waste and boost launch confidence. As co-founder of Bumblebee Design and current Lead Product Designer at Cambri, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with studio and consultancy practice, having led multidisciplinary teams and client engagements for major brands. Sami’s background as an entrepreneur at Koodit ja koneet means he also handles sales, facilitation and creative direction when projects demand it, not just visual and interaction design. He’s comfortable moving between strategic research and pixel-level execution, and often surfaces practical, measurable product improvements rather than abstract design artifacts. Based in Finland, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor and startup pragmatism to product discovery and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Technology), Software Engineering, Master of Science (Technology), Software Engineering at Tampere University of TechnologyVänrikki (Second Lieutenant), Vänrikki (Second Lieutenant) at Reserviupseerikoulu - Reservofficersskolan - Reserve Officer SchoolDoctor of Science (Technology), User Experience Design, Doctor of Science (Technology), User Experience Design at Tampere University
Finnish, English, SwedishGithub contributions (1)
nullpointer08/nullpointer-server
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 21 pushes in 2 months
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