Juha Kovanen

Juha Kovanen

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I are programmer, I make computer beep boop beep beep boop.
Finland
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  • S
    Senior Software Developer public Remote experience
    SuchVenture
    Oct 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)
    Startups, Personal projects, Infrastructure Development, ...

    Actively developing production-grade systems with real users:
    - Built a production-grade "homelab" with enterprise-level practices (GitOps, auto-deployment, centralized auth, monitoring) spanning multiple servers and 100+ services across two locations.
    - Developing Association management platform in collaboration with a Finnish association (Ruka-Kuusamon Mökkiläiset ry), covering membership management, mobile membership cards, SMS/email notifications, Finnish
    eID document signing, and meeting tooling (document sharing, streaming). The platform is being designed with productization in mind for reuse across similar associations.
    - Developing cryptocurr
  • Tentile Oy
    Senior Software Engineer public Remote experience
    Tentile Oy
    Jan 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 9 months)
    Building a low-latency cryptocurrency trading and market making platform, with a focus on high-throughput infrastructure, real-time data processing, and system reliability.
    - Designed and delivered the aggregator, a real-time market data service powering trading bots for a cryptocurrency market-making platform.
    - Developed Helix (Injective) and Osmosis (Cosmos) DEX connectors for order management, account management, and market data streaming.
    - Built transfer-bot to automate and ensure sufficient token balances across exchanges.
    - Refactored and extended the exchange-connector to support 10+ major CEXs.
    - Created a Dockerized development environment to streamline multi-service local testing.
    - Built Grafana da
  • Anders Innovations
    Senior Software Developer public Remote experience
    Anders Innovations
    Sep 2023 - Jan 2024 (5 months)
    Development for multiple customers, mainly working on a gift card portal and a driver app for goods transport.
    - Delivered features for a driver application for one of Finland’s largest logistics companies.
    - Maintained and extended Finland’s largest gift card portal.
    - Designed and planned a full backend rewrite for the gift card portal from legacy PHP to modern TypeScript (Node.js).
    - Upgraded the ePharmacy (“Pharmacy as a Service”) product data importer to support the latest model from The Association of Finnish Pharmacies.
  • Tesseract
    Senior Software Engineer public Remote experience
    Tesseract
    Aug 2022 - Feb 2023 (7 months)
    Building a platform for digital asset management and lending.
    - Developed new lending and staking features, including fund freezing/locking mechanisms.
    - Designed and executed load tests for major client onboarding, identifying critical bottlenecks prior to launch.
    - Refactored monorepo architecture to improve dependencies and overall structure.
    - Significantly reduced CI/CD build times by rewriting GitHub Actions workflows and optimizing Docker images.
  • The Node formerly Matchmade
    Senior Software Engineer public Remote experience
    The Node formerly Matchmade
    Nov 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 2 months)
    Working on a creator marketing platform, matching advertisers and creators together for targeted and measured campaigns.
    - Implemented new microservices to replace monolithic components, improving platform performance and maintainability whilst reducing technical debt.
    - Developed core backend services like payouts, offers, campaigns, invoices and notifications and a new Instagram story synchronization service.
    - Regularly rotated into a Fixer role to resolve platform-wide issues and ensure production stability.
  • Particl Project
    Lead Developer public Remote experience
    Particl Project
    Aug 2017 - Jun 2020 (2 years 11 months)
    Particl is open source, a privacy-first and censorship-resistant e-commerce platform built on blockchain and peer-to-peer technology.
    - Led development of the Particl Marketplace, a blockchain-based, privacy-focused decentralized ecommerce marketplace, from first commit through to production.
    - Architected and implemented trustless shopping using MAD game theory based escrow smart contracts.
    - Transitioned from team lead to solo developer post-downsizing in 2019, maintaining full ownership of the codebase.
    - Built comprehensive supporting systems: Open Market Protocol library, payment gateway, crowdfunding system, dropshipping integrations, chat bridge, faucet, and tip-bot.
    - Implemented CI/CD pipeline with Drone an
  • Democrazy Inc
    Co-Founder public Remote experience
    Democrazy Inc
    Apr 2017 - Dec 2017 (9 months)
    A service for democratic decision making by connecting representatives and their supporters.
  • E
    Chief Architect public Remote experience
    ExportIn
    Nov 2016 - Aug 2017 (10 months)
    Developed service for sales management in bioeconomy and cleantech sectors to more accurately direct sales to the most prominent customers and discard irrelevant leads.
  • R
    Developer public Remote experience
    Random Projects
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 (2 years)
    11/2016 Unicorn, A Crowdfunding app for value based investing for millenials. Developed during Ultrahack 2016.
    08/2016: Sell Your Soul, POC of a MyData marketplace enabling consumers to monetize their data. 2nd place at MyData 2016 hackathon.
    02/2016: POC for improving guest experience and gathering feedback in Fazer’s restaurants. Basically a service gathering feedback via sms and then displaying it in different ways for different stakeholders. Developed at CXHack Fazer, 2nd place. Two months later the idea was merged with the winning one to create a restaurant feedback solution now being piloted at Fazer restaurants.
    08/2015: AirsofTracker, Airsoftracker is a platform for the airsoft community, which helps Game Masters to
  • Tieto
    Software Architect
    Tieto
    May 2014 - Nov 2016 (2 years 7 months)
    Working on mobile solutions for mainly businesses in banking and retail areas.
  • R
    Developer
    Random Projects
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2014 (1 year)
    06/2014: Developer/Cloakpal, a mobile cryptocurrency wallet service for Cloakcoin. Allowed you to send Cloaks from phonenumber to phonenumber using sms's.
    01/2014: Developer/DogeSMS.com, site for ordering Dogecoin-cryptocurrency via sms.
  • HiveUp
    Developer public Remote experience
    HiveUp
    Dec 2013 - Aug 2014 (9 months)
    A mobile app for group conversations. A topic- and location-based chat platform designed for meaningful conversations with individuals who share similar passions. Development started during Startupweekend Helsinki. We were rated to Top 15 teams in the Global Startup Battle’s Innovators Circle.
  • Samlink A Kyndryl Company
    Software Architect
    Samlink A Kyndryl Company
    Sep 2012 - Apr 2014 (1 year 8 months)
    Architect in the Integrations and eServices team. Getting my hands dirty with Liferay, Alfresco and Mule once again. Portals and other awesome stuff implemented for some banks, telecommunications company and a vehicle leasing company. Internal eService-product development.
  • Exaget Ltd
    Lead Developer public Remote experience
    Exaget Ltd
    Jun 2012 - Sep 2012 (4 months)
    Lead developer/scrum master, working on advertising platform solution enabling broadcasters to connect with their listeners and allowing the specific targeting of highly relevant digital audio ads via in-stream ad insertion technology offering higher response rates and a stronger return on investment. I was involved in the Android client, integration library and backend development.
  • Futurice
    Android Developer public Remote experience
    Futurice
    Jun 2012 - Sep 2012 (4 months)
    Parttime/Freelance Android developer
  • Barona
    Senior Software Developer
    Barona
    Jan 2012 - May 2012 (5 months)
    Worked as a Consultant at Tieto, developing Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) solution called Tieto Open Mobility Platform.
  • R
    Developer public Remote experience
    Random Projects
    Sep 2011 - Dec 2013 (2 years 4 months)
    2012-2013 : Mobile Developer, Restaurant Day's Android application, Restaurant Day is a one-day carnival in favor of restaurant and food culture. Restaurant Day mobile applications were developed by volunteering IT professionals in a 50-hour hackathon event held in January 2012 at Futurice Oy. Winner of the best mobile service 2012 award.
    05/2013: Developer/DataDuck, tool for viewing website visitors actions in real time using some cool WebRTC wizardry, Startupweekend@Helsinki.
    03/2013: Developer/Tunefy, tool for automatic music distribution to all the biggest music stores in the world, Garage48@Tallinn.
    01/2013: Mobile Developer/Outbreak, Mobile multiplayer location based zombie survival action and role playing game demo fo
  • S
    Founder public Remote experience
    SHARE
    Feb 2011 - Aug 2011 (7 months)
    Share was yet another mobile location based social media service. Later renamed to GeoFeed. https://geofeed.in
  • P
    Architect / Founder
    Proactum Oy
    Mar 2008 - Jan 2010 (1 year 11 months)
    Proactum Oy acquired Quosis Oy to strengthen its Open Source expertise.

    Worked as Architect and Developer from small Liferay customization projects to large scale Liferay/Alfresco integration projects for both public and private organizations.

    Winner of the Finnish Quality Innovation 2009 in the SME series, Innovate!Europe Master Class Finalist 2009.
  • Q
    CTO / Founder
    Quosis Oy
    Nov 2004 - Mar 2008 (3 years 5 months)
    Co-founder of Quosis Oy. My first own company specialized in Open Source solutions. Quosis provided consultation services and software solutions for organizational communication and information management and focused on the areas of document and content management as well as portals and integration solutions.
  • H
    Short Time Expert / Programmer
    Helsinki Consulting Group
    Dec 2003 - Aug 2004 (9 months)
    Working for SADC-Finnish ICT project in Gaborone/Botswana.

    12/2003-5/2004: Designing the Information Architecture of the SADC Intranet & Portal together with the Concept Designer. Implementation of the Intranet and Portal.
    8/2004: SADC Extranet Technical Architecture.
  • S
    IT Consultant
    SysOpen Oyj
    Nov 2000 - Dec 2004 (4 years 2 months)
    J2EE design and development, while working with various enterprise-level software and specificly portal server solutions.
  • L
    Web Developer
    Leetradio
    Jan 1999 - Dec 2003 (5 years)
    Building, designing and maintaining a website and the admin software for internet radio station. Installing, configuring and taking care of the streaming servers.

    Booking shows and planning schedule for DJs from all over the world.
  • T
    Software Developer
    Tietovalmis
    Jun 1998 - Oct 2000 (2 years 5 months)
    Worked in a team of hired consultants for one of the biggest firms in telecommunications industry. Participated in development and design of an AMR (Automated Meter Reading) system. Ported software written for OS/2 to Windows NT. Development of a project management software for desktop environment. Later testing different languages (PHP3, ASP, ColdFusion, Java, CTD2000) to implement the same functionalities for web environment. Planned and held a small C++/MFC course for the other employees to teach them the basics of C++/MFC windows programming.
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  • JAMK University of Applied Sciences
    Hightech management program
    JAMK University of Applied Sciences
    Jan 2006 - Dec 2006 (1 year)
  • UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
    Launch Pad training program
    UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
    Jan 2005 - Dec 2005 (1 year)
    The object of this Launch Pad program is to provide new techniques and tools to improve participants business planning for the demands of foreign markets and to develop High-Tech business entrepreneurship. Launch Pad program was organized together with Sharon C. Ballard, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä Polytechnic, and Jyväskylä Science Park Ltd.
  • UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
    Information technology
    UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
    Jan 1999 - Current (27 years 10 months)
  • JAMK University of Applied Sciences
    Programming technology
    JAMK University of Applied Sciences
    Jan 1998 - Dec 2000 (3 years)
  • Y
    Ylioppilas
    Aug 1994 - Jun 1996 (1 year 11 months)
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  • U
    Ultrahack 2016: Fintech track - Unicorn app
    Jan 2016
    Banks are currently struggling with onboarding younger customers to buy their products. We wanted to answer: "How might we make investing more appealing for millennials?" In 48 hours our team created a technically validated concept that makes millennials first investment as easy and exciting as riding a Unicorn. The concept consisted of a quick and simple onboarding process which made use of Facebook login and PSD2 compliant Open Bank APIs by Tesobe to quickly make suggestions of relevant crowdfunding opportunities for the user. Crowdfunding was chosen as millennials prefer value based investing instead of just pure profit. Crowdfunding is itself inherently social and makes for a better sharing experience than more traditional investment in
  • E
    Expa Game Lab 2013
    Jan 2013 - Dec 2013 (1 year)
    Expa Game Lab was pilot based on Oulu Game Lab model where participants create game teams and polish their ideas through various pitching gates. Our greatest results were formation of two new game companies Zaibatsu Interactive and FanART Games.