Tapani Saarinen
Lead Solutions Architect at Túlka
Finland
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Top SchoolTapani Saarinen is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneurial product developer with over 11 years of experience building and scaling startup technology products from mobile apps to machine vision solutions. As Lead Solutions Architect at Túlka and former CTO, he has led development of a profitable, fast-growing on-demand video interpreting service, combining hands-on engineering with strategic product vision. He co-founded and helped exit hardware-software ventures, delivered mobile and embedded systems for outdoor tracking, and has steered machine vision companies as board chair—demonstrating a rare blend of technical depth and business acumen. Based in Finland, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with practical experience across full-stack, mobile, and server-side technologies. Pragmatic and imaginative, he favors solving real-world problems that scale while nurturing culture and product-market fit. An interesting through-line: he repeatedly moves between founding roles and technical leadership, showing both builder mentality and governance experience.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Eastern Finland
Finnish, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
photo10
animated10
onesignal10
http-client10
chat10
visual-studio10
bundler10
native-module10
command-line-tool10
client-library10
heroicons10
pinch10
locker10
browser10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tapz/teslapizero
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:17 commits in 9 days
tapz/RSKImageCropper
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
An image cropper / photo cropper for iOS like in the Contacts app with support for landscape orientation.
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes, 2 tags in 1 day
imagecontactsorientationphotopickerswift
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