Samuel Tervaskanto
VP Of Engineering at Wolt
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Tervaskanto is a product-focused VP of Engineering with 20+ years designing and shipping web, mobile and desktop systems across Java/JVM, Python and JavaScript stacks. He’s led teams from hands-on backend engineering to executive leadership at Wolt, scaling high-traffic services such as search, personalization and recommendation platforms. His career blends deep architecture work—migrating monoliths to microservices and optimizing performance—with people leadership, interviewing hundreds of engineers and building data-driven development practices. Comfortable across cloud, analytics and mobile domains, he has repeatedly turned complex data mashups into user-facing product value. A lifelong programmer who still owns his original C64, he values simplicity, learning from data and building delightful products for humans. Based in Helsinki, he pairs pragmatic technical depth with a passion for coaching top engineering talent.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Computer Science, MSc., Computer Science at Oulun yliopisto
English, Finnish
Github Skills (1)
intern9
Github contributions (5)
woltapp/summer2020
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Assignment for engineering intern positions
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
engineeringinternpositions
woltapp/summer2018
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes in 26 days
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