Summary
Tero Pihlaja is a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building self-service platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and observability for cloud and hybrid environments. He has led IaC adoption across fleets of VMs and Kubernetes clusters, implementing Terraform, Chef Infra, GitLab CI and ArgoCD to eliminate drift and cut unplanned downtime. At RELEX he shipped Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and a production-to-beta data refresh platform that removed slow manual ops workflows and added scheduling, access control and auditing. Equally comfortable in day-to-day ops and developer-facing tooling, he combines systems engineering roots with a knack for reducing developer friction. Based in Espoo, Finland, he also brings practical entrepreneurial experience from running IT consultancies and an unusual side skill set that includes freelance pyrotechnics and club security leadership.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics and telecommunications, Electronics and telecommunications at Länsi-Uudenmaan koulutuskeskus
Portuguese, English, Finnish