Summary
Timo Hanhirova is a hands-on full-stack software architect based in Helsinki with over 17 years of polyglot web and cloud-native experience and 12 years in senior roles delivering SaaS products. He blends practical architecture, full-stack development and DevOps with a designer’s sensibility, shipping systems using TypeScript/React, Java/JVM languages, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud platforms like GCP, Azure and AWS. Timo has led product and platform architecture across microservices, micro-frontends, serverless and edge computing, and recently architected IoT SaaS and enterprise learning platforms. He prefers asynchronous, concrete outreach about opportunities and values clarity on stack, compensation and location. Known for moving between high-level strategy and implementation, he still writes production code and mentors teams to operationalize resilient systems. Outside the job title, his career shows a long habit of exploring new languages and stacks—Rust, Go, Scala and Clojure among them—so he’s comfortable adopting the right tool for the problem.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer science, M.Sc. Computer science at University of Oulu