Summary
Harri Heljala is an engineering leader and Google Cloud Team Lead with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, full‑stack JavaScript systems and leading product-focused engineering teams from Helsinki. He blends hands-on expertise in Node.js, React and serverless architectures with proven entrepreneurial chops as co-founder/CTO of multiple SaaS products that together serve hundreds of thousands of users annually. At Tietoevry he helps enterprises design scalable, maintainable cloud platforms, drawing on prior success migrating high-traffic properties to serverless stacks and driving a fivefold revenue jump after a SaaS pivot. Comfortable spanning product, growth and infrastructure, Harri pairs data-driven decision making and TDD practices with a background in growth engineering and conversion optimization. He also brings unusual domain breadth—from public sector mobility research to operating revenue-generating developer tools—making him effective at translating strategic goals into production systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Technology, Master of Science in Technology at Aalto University
English, Finnish, Swedish, German