Tero Teelahti

Experienced software architect & CTO

Below is the barebones CV, for full details check my Linkedin. For summary of my past and interests check About Me.

Contact

Phone +358 40 562 2455
Github teelahti
Linkedin teroteelahti

Work

Next Games - a Netflix game studio

Studio Technology Director

2023-06-01

Leading game development, Next Games' unified gaming platform, and IT functions. Member of the management team. Working closely together with the global Netflix gaming organization.

Next Games - a Netflix game studio

Chief Technology Officer

2021-06-01

Leading game development, Next Games' unified gaming platform, and IT functions. Member of the management team. Participated in Netflix's acquisition of Next Games.

Next Games - a Netflix game studio

Technology Director

2020-10-01 — 2021-06-01

Leading all in-house game and game platform development. Product owner for Next Games's unified gaming platform.

Armada Interactive

CEO, co-founder

2018-03-01 — Present

After a failed game took over the CEO role to streamline company back to rapid development mode. In addition to the CEO role I'm still actively involved in developmemt.

Armada Interactive

CTO, co-founder

2015-11-01 — 2018-03-01

Building a new AAA mobile gaming company from scratch. Deeply involved and part of development team in Game technology (backend, frontend), game deployment pipeline, analytics, security, office infrastructure, vendor selection and management, recruiting. The primary technology stack for Armada Interactive's first game is Unity, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Go, Elixir, C# (on .NET core), NodeJS, Datastore, BigQuery, Dataflow, and Redis.

Basware

Chief architect

2012-08-01 — 2015-12-01

Designing Purchase to Pay (P2P) automation product family and its global cloud service based offering (multi-tenant, SaaS). Also involved in overall solution architecture, continuous deployment, development process, recruiting, and test automation activities.

Avanade

Manager

2010-12-01 — 2012-08-01

Working as an architect in large software projects, supporting sales, helping development teams work smarter. Supported HR as a technical recruiter.

  • 2010-2012 worked as a chief architect in a large governmental application rewrite.
  • During 2012 worked as a program architect of a pension management system.

Avanade

Senior Consultant

2007-05-01 — 2010-12-01

Working as an architect in large software projects, supporting sales, helping development teams work smarter. Supported HR as a technical recruiter. During 2007-2010 worked for government in one of the largest software projects in Finland. Started out as a UI lead developer, later advanced to chief architect position.

VBS Net Oy

Consultant

1998-06-01 — 2007-05-01

Worked as a consultant mainly on banking and financial sector. Worked with a small team on many projects that were truly greenfield and first of their kind (at least in Finland).

  • Designing and building a rewards program for a credit card company from scratch.
  • Building self service portals for a credit card company
  • Building automatic processes and web sites for credit card holders to order custom credit cards with own images printed on them.
  • Involved in SaaS-based startups, e.g. in a financial administration system
  • Presales activies

Education

Helsingin kauppakorkeakoulu

1997-01-01 — 2005-01-01
Economics, M.Sc. ( GPA)
Courses

Lahden Yhteiskoulu

1992-01-01 — 1995-01-01
Basic Studies, Matriculation ( GPA)
Courses

Skills

Cloud Computing

Kubernetes, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and SaaS

Software Architecture

Solution architecture, Distributed systems, Messaging, SOA, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Test Automation

Software Development

Developer Coaching, Agile Methodologies, Offshoring, Vendor Management, Consulting, Performance Tuning, .NET, C#, Go, Python, Docker, and git

Web Development

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, NodeJS, and ASP.NET

Databases

Google Cloud Datastore, Redis, SQL Server, Azure DocumentDB, Azure Table Storage, and RavenDB

Public Speaking

Recruiting

Languages

Finnish

Native or bilingual proficiency

English

Full professional proficiency

Swedish

Limited working proficiency