Tuomas Mäkinen
Chief Technology Officer at ZkCloud
Finland
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SeniorTuomas Mäkinen is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, edge and IoT systems using Go, Rust and WebAssembly on Kubernetes and bare metal. He has progressed from low-level C++ and Java server work to platform engineering and architectural roles at companies like Giant Swarm and Equilibrium, now leading technology at ZkCloud. Tuomas specializes in networking-first architectures—overlay, underlay and WireGuard-tunneled connectivity—and brings practical experience deploying resilient distributed systems at the edge. Known for bridging infrastructure and application concerns, he combines platform engineering rigor with a developer-first mindset to ship secure, high-performance solutions. Based in Finland, he often operates where constrained hardware, networking quirks and cloud-native tooling meet.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Finnish, English, Swedish, Russian
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Github Skills (178)
giant-swarm10
operator10
api10
masters10
bare-metal9
azure9
exporter9
backup9
docker-image9
blockchain9
swarm9
cloud-init9
kubernetes9
bare9
nodes9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tuommaki/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Jan 2024
dotfiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
gevulotnetwork/gevulot
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Gevulot is an internet scale compute network for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification.
Contributions:164 reviews, 213 PRs, 209 pushes in 1 year
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