Valtteri Kukkonen

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Hi there! I'm Valtteri and this is Lex. Bringing strategy to life through software is my expertise. Let's build together!

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Strategy that ships.

01 · Strategy

Reality-grounded strategy.

I've had the privilege of carrying forward strategic initiatives across a wide range of industries. Through my master of science in technology degree with strategy and venturing as my main subject I'm a formally trained business strategy professional. I started my career as a business consultant at BearingPoint working with clients to shape and develop their strategic initiatives especially related to technology.

Technology shapes the strategic landscape of any industry. This is more than ever true with the latest wave of capabilities unlocked by AI. I'm actively working with tecnologies like AI first-hand. This grounds my thinking in strategy to the realities on the ground.

I'm actively working in the intersection of strategy and technology. My deep technical expertise enables me to bridge the gap between strategy and implementation. What iniatives make or break your business? Let's get in touch, I'm happy to help!

Focus
Technology strategy
Experience
Strategy creation, implementation

02 · Software delivery

Not just code, solutions.

My business strategy background makes me always start from the end user perspective. This has lead me to realise novel approaches to problems. I'm also actively working with the end user group to identify ways to reshape their processes. This cocreation shaping both the software delivery as well as the end user processes radically increases value.

In terms of hard technological competence I'm experienced in creating a full startup tech stack in AWS using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) technologies. This involves user management and access control, website hosting & DNS (Route53, S3, CloudFront), and computational infrastructure like databases (RDS, OpenSearch, S3, Dynamo), serverless containers (AWS Lambda, EKS), and pub-sub (SNS, SQS). What is more, I'm capable of setting up and managing networking meaning NAT, VPC, subnets, and security groups.

As a developer I'm full stack experienced in Angular, React (NextJS), SolidJS, and Astro on the frontend and TypeScript (Node), Python (FastAPI), and Rust (Axum) on the backend. I've been developing a tool for AI workflow creation for the past year.

As a developer I've delivered solutions for instrumentation (PostHog, Google Analytics), AI-based support ticket analysis (RAG, OpenSearch), and access control (shared libraries and AWS Lambda Authorizer pattern). Please, check the Solutions tab for the details.

Focus
Solutions for business needs
Experience
AWS, AI, business processes

Notes from the work

Projects, solutions, and my latest thinking.