Tero Ranta
Group Manager at Istekki Oy
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTero Ranta is a seasoned software and product leader based in Finland with two decades of hands-on experience and over a decade in leadership roles driving automotive and mobile software teams. He has led cross-functional squads of up to 30–50 engineers as Product Owner, Project Manager and Group Manager, shipping infotainment UIs, navigation SDKs and full-stack fleet management solutions. Tero blends technical depth (C++, Qt, J2EE, embedded/ middleware) with strong agile coaching, OKR alignment and people development—recruiting, mentoring and upskilling teams to deliver complex customer-driven products. He has a proven track record scaling localization and market-access efforts globally (e.g., enabling 80+ languages on mass-market devices) and translating stakeholder vision into prioritized backlogs and measurable KPIs. Comfortable operating between customers, product and engineering, he favours continuous learning cultures and pragmatic delivery over bureaucracy.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Oulun yliopisto
Github Skills (73)
hacklang9
sensor9
home-automation9
python9
octoprint9
duplex9
php9
arduino9
raspberry-pi9
iot9
mqtt8
esp328
automation8
firmware8
home-assistant8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RC-Thoughts/LUA_RFID-Battery
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 4 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 4 months
knifeswissbatteryarmy
RC-Thoughts/Jeti_AmpSensor
Dec 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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