Yrjö Kari-koskinen
CTO at Digitaalinen asuntokauppa DIAS
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolYrjö Kari-koskinen is a Helsinki-based CTO and seasoned technology leader with 16 years of experience shaping digital products, developer competence programs, and agile practices. He blends deep functional programming and architecture skills with hands-on delivery experience across startups and consultancies, from Ubisecure identity systems to leading technology at Futurice and now DIAS. Yrjö excels at building learning cultures—he created cross-site competence leads and autonomy-driving tooling—and coaches teams in pragmatic ways of working. As a podcast host and facilitator he surfaces practical engineering and organizational insights beyond code. He prefers deliberate professional ties, connecting only with people he has met, reflecting a relational, trust-first approach to leadership. His background includes academic exchange in Graz and an M.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering, underscoring a long-standing commitment to technical rigor.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanExchange studies, Computer Software Engineering, Exchange studies, Computer Software Engineering at Technische Universität Graz
English, Finnish, German, Swedish, Italian
Github Skills (89)
babashka9
ring9
negotiation8
middleware8
edn8
estimate8
google-apps8
content-negotiation8
data-driven7
simplify7
leiningen7
sdk7
clojure-spec7
java7
media7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ykarikos/alphabet-javascript
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
ykarikos/letterpress.fi
Feb 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
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