Kari Laalo
Co-Founder at Karidea
Vantaa, Finland
Summary
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SeniorKari Laalo is a CIAM and IAM specialist with a decade of experience delivering identity and access solutions across national security, humanistic government agencies, and most recently financial services. As co-founder of Olevi and Karidea, he blends hands-on engineering with practical architecture for critical environments, drawing on deep knowledge of SAML, OIDC, Shibboleth, Linux, Java/Spring and automation with Ansible. He has a background in telecommunications and networking in high-stakes settings, which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and secure design. Kari favors clear, auditable configurations (YAML/Markdown/JSON) and maintains an appreciation for XML where appropriate, reflecting a balance of modern tooling and legacy interoperability. Known for being personable and collaborative, he translates complex requirements into deployable, well-documented systems. Based in Vantaa, Finland, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a lifelong passion for computing to every project.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (23)
basic-authentication6
http6
spring-security6
spring6
security6
java6
homebridge6
safari6
ios6
google-cloud-functions6
web-application6
raspberry5
nodejs4
temperature4
identity-provider3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
klaalo/reqTokenAuth
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
Olevi-id/ip-idp-documentation
Aug 2022 - Aug 2025
WeAre Solutions Identity Provider Reference
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
oauth2provideridentityidentity-provider
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