Ville Ristimäki
Tech Lead at Simplifio
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVille Ristimäki is a tech lead and serial founder with 12 years of experience shaping product-focused engineering teams and end-to-end systems from design through DevOps. Currently splitting leadership between Moovy and his startups HQ Finder and Simplifio, he combines hands-on full-stack development with strategic technology direction and architecture. His background spans startups and larger enterprises, moving from web and Drupal development to leading platforms and integrations as CTO and lead architect. Based in Tampere, Finland, he brings practical, low-jargon engineering—"less jargon, more code"—that prioritizes shipping reliable systems. He pairs formal training in mechatronics and computer science with real-world experience in document control and operations, giving him a systems-minded approach to both product and infrastructure challenges. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical decisions that bridge UX, backend services, and deployment.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
vocational qualification of Electrical engineering Electronics ICT, vocational qualification of Electrical engineering Electronics ICT at WinnovaBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences - SAMKTampere UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Swedish, German, Finnish
Github Skills (103)
scrapy10
javascript10
wordpress10
rental10
html10
vue10
bootstrap10
php-class10
css10
sass10
scraper10
responsive10
laravel-mix9
devtools9
laravel9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
villeristi/vue.js-advanced-starter-template
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 9 months
templatejs-projectsvue-jsboilerplatevue
villeristi/machine-learning-stack-for-docker
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Kickstart your Machine Learning experiments with Python 3.6, Jupyter Notebook, Docker and multiple libraries & tools
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
pythondata-sciencepython-3-6jupyter-notebooknotebook
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