Simo Ahava
Co-Founder at Simmer Oy
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolSimo Ahava is a data and analytics entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building teams, teaching technical marketers, and architecting tag management and web analytics solutions. As co-founder and instructor at Simmer Oy and a Senior Data Advocate at 8-bit-sheep, he blends hands-on implementation expertise (GTM, data layers, custom JS) with a knack for scaling cross-disciplinary teams. Previously a Growth Partner at Reaktor Ventures and senior roles at Reaktor and Netbooster, he has guided Nordic startups and enterprises on analytics strategy and growth. Trained as a linguist (M.A., University of Helsinki), he brings a research-minded approach to data modeling and documentation—turning messy web events into reliable datasets. He prefers community-driven problem solving (Measure Chat/Slack) over sales pitches and is known for candid, platform-agnostic advice. Based in Espoo, Finland, he pairs academic rigor with practical pedagogy to make complex analytics accessible to practitioners.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) English philology General linguistics North American studies, Master of Arts (M.A.) English philology General linguistics North American studies at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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google-analytics
top-5%
Github Skills (79)
google-tag-manager10
facebook-pixel10
set-cookie10
monster10
amplitude10
custom-tag10
ip-database9
browser9
insertion9
google-analytics9
google-cloud-platform9
facebook9
loader9
ip-geolocation9
amplitude-analytics9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gtm-templates-simo-ahava/gtm-loader
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
GTM Loader - Custom Client Template (Server) for Google Tag Manager.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
custom-loadergoogle-tag-managertag-managertemplate-servercustom-client
sahava/gtm-cl
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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