Ville Laurikari
Co-Founder, CTO at Zefort
Finland
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SeniorVille Laurikari is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 20 years of experience building products, teams, and profitable businesses from the ground up. As CTO of Zefort, he blends deep technical fluency across software engineering, AI, backend systems, and digital marketing with hands-on product management and customer development. He has a pragmatic focus on scaling reliable systems and turning market feedback into revenue-generating features. Ville’s open-source contributions include nontrivial backend and portability work on the MLton compiler, demonstrating low-level systems expertise beyond typical startup stacks. Based in Finland, he brings both strategic vision and developer-first execution to early-stage and growth-stage challenges. Colleagues know him for pairing entrepreneurial grit with a rare mix of systems-level problem solving and go-to-market sensibility.
20 years of coding experience
Finnish, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (37)
porting10
unix10
aix10
sml10
linux10
bash10
prompt10
gcc10
system10
hp-ux10
compiler-compiler10
sys10
openssl10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MLton/mlton
May 2006 - Apr 2009
The MLton repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ville primarily contributed to porting and adapting the MLton compiler runtime to various operating systems, notably AIX and HP-UX. Their work involved modifying system-specific code, including header files and platform-dependent functions, to ensure compatibility and address platform-specific limitations like the absence of certain flags. The user also fixed bugs related to non-blocking I/O with sockets and optimized code for different architectures.
smlfunctional-programmingstandard-mlmachine-learningcompiler
laurikari/tre
Jan 2013 - Mar 2021
The approximate regex matching library and agrep command line tool.
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 years 3 months
command-line-toolstring-matchingregular-expressionsregexmatching
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