Ville Kankainen
CTO at Ihmeitätekevä Ikoni
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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SeniorVille Kankainen is a pragmatic CTO and programmer-by-heart with 11 years in senior tech leadership and a 16-year industry track record of turning forward-looking ideas into production-grade digital products and new business models. He has led architecture and engineering teams across AI/ML, MLOps, cloud-native and analytics domains—shipping solutions that leverage Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, microservices, Node.js and React for industrial clients. Comfortable both in the technical frontline and in board-level strategy (Chairman at Päivölä Student Innovation Lab), he combines hands-on development experience with a knack for selecting the right technologies to validate business cases. Based in Tampere, Finland, Ville is known for accelerating innovation cycles and embedding scalable operational practices into early-stage products. Notably, he moves between roles as founder, CTO and chief architect, demonstrating entrepreneurial drive alongside deep systems design expertise.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
api7
multiprocessing6
confluent-platform6
apache-kafka6
python6
pickle6
ubuntu6
robotframework4
trusted-execution-environment4
testing4
synchronize3
docker3
manifest2
tee2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
walhava/linuxconf
Aug 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:15 pushes in 5 years 4 months
G-A-I-N/gainlib
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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