Ville Hellman is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building developer experience, build infrastructure, and CI platforms at Datadog and in freelance leadership roles. He blends systems-level engineering in Go with roots in Ruby and Elixir, bringing an SRE mindset to tooling that scales developer productivity. As a former team lead, interim CTO and co-founder, he pairs hands-on implementation with pragmatic technical leadership across startups and enterprise environments. He runs a consultancy (FxNDev) and a consumer app (Cuiseen), showing an appetite for product-focused engineering as well as platform work. Based in the UK, he prioritizes creating leverage through tooling and automation that reduces toil for engineering teams. Outside work he’s a dad who channels curiosity into exploring new languages and ops-first solutions.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at The Open University
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