Tomi Turtiainen
Staff Architect at n8n
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTomi Turtiainen is a Staff Architect based in Tampere, Finland with 10 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native products for startups and scaleups. He combines hands-on work across infrastructure, DevOps and application layers—Kubernetes, Docker, Azure/AWS, Terraform, Go, Node.js and modern frontend stacks—with product-focused delivery that “gets stuff done.” At n8n he evolved from Senior Engineer to Staff Architect and contributed to the widely used n8n workflow platform’s core and CLI, improving execution handling, database interactions and task runner reliability. Tomi’s background as a technical founder and CTO gives him a practical appreciation for product, hiring and go-to-market tradeoffs alongside deep engineering craft. He’s comfortable in both blue-chip consultancy roles and scrappy startups, and is known for spotting where systems fall short and implementing pragmatic fixes end-to-end. Unexpectedly, his early experience building simulation tools and running production refuelling operations shows a long-standing aptitude for high-reliability systems and operational discipline.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Automation and information networks, Master's Degree, Automation and information networks at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018City University of Hong Kong
German, Spanish, English, Finnish
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
error-handling9
nodejs9
typeorm8
database-design7
aws6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
n8n-io/n8n
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1433 reviews, 579 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tomi primarily contributed to the core and CLI components of the n8n workflow automation platform, specifically focused on bug fixes and enhancements related to execution handling and database interactions. Their work involved modifying the code to address issues in soft-deleting executions and to enhance the database operations related to running workflow and task execution. They also added improvements to the task runner including handling errors in logging, validating data before encryption and improving message handlings.
productivity-toolsn8npythonlow-code-platformrpa
Oncarbon/git-changelog-generator-for-slack
Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
Generate a slack message JSON from git commits
Contributions:5 releases, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
slackcommitsmessagejson
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