Long-term builder, advisor and technology enthusiast.

Early to mid 1990s

My first serious software work started on classic home computers and early PCs, building applications and games across platforms such as Commodore 64, Amiga 500, MS-DOS and Windows. As the web started opening up, that expanded into early websites and services, including a Finnish movie database site built long before modern publishing stacks made this kind of work easy.

• Developed software across home computer and PC environments before the web became mainstream.
• Moved naturally from standalone software into the first generation of web-based products and services.

Early 2000s

I created a social media platform for Finnish college students years before Facebook became part of everyday life. At its peak it served more than 5 000 daily users and included chat, image sharing, user profiles and community features. Around the same time I helped ramp up the mobile department of the Finnish-Chinese startup Unique United.

• Built a large student community service with real daily usage, social features and user management.
• Expanded from web software into mobile, product growth and team building.

Mid 2000s

At Nokia I often operated as a translator between management, engineering and customers. The work combined technology understanding, customer dialogue and practical product work across web, mobile and NFC or RFID-related solutions.

• Bridged business and engineering conversations in a large international technology organisation.
• Worked with customer meetings, mobile services and emerging connected-device technologies.

Late 2000s

After Nokia I moved into entrepreneurship and started building my own consultancy business. The focus quickly developed toward pharma and well-being, where technology choices had to support real-world quality, trust and domain understanding.

Early 2010s

I co-founded two additional startups during this period: Syntax Error in mobile games and Fishare as a mobile and web service for fishermen. This was also when the first Business Finland-backed projects entered the picture and innovation work became a more formal part of the journey.

• Explored both entertainment and service-product angles through new ventures.
• Began building experience in public innovation funding and application work.

Mid 2010s

My consultancy company merged with a creative agency, which became Make Helsinki. That significantly broadened the offering by bringing together technology, UI, UX and design under one roof. During these years we worked not only in pharma and clinical-trial-related contexts, but also across FMCG, sustainability, gaming and construction. At the same time, we started building early virtual reality prototypes and I began working with IBM Watson AI.

• Built a more complete digital product company by combining engineering with design capability.
• Worked across both regulated and non-regulated industries, which kept the perspective broad while healthcare depth continued to grow.

Late 2010s

Business Finland-funded work continued, the pharma focus grew stronger and new gadgets, virtual reality and augmented reality became a larger part of the practical work. During this period I also co-authored a scientific journal article on tremor quantification using consumer product accelerometry.

• Balanced regulated health delivery with experimentation in new interfaces and devices.
• Expanded the role of scientific, clinical and evidence-driven thinking in software work.

Early 2020s

Make Helsinki was acquired by Healthware, which expanded the international dimension of the work and created more room for emerging technology initiatives. I led work on a virtual-reality-based digital therapeutic that progressed all the way to a validated medical-device path, and I also worked on a growing number of AI-related initiatives, including helping customers understand and adopt AI in practical ways.

• Led a VR-based therapeutic product where immersive design, clinical logic and regulated delivery had to work together.
• Helped customers not only build with AI, but also understand how to use it responsibly and usefully.

Mid 2020s

When Healthware was acquired by EVERSANA, the international context grew again and the Finnish team increasingly became known internally for new technology work. Alongside customer delivery, I kept expanding hands-on capability through 3D-printing-driven ecommerce, live AI concepts and independent web products such as KisaPlay.

• Continued to connect advisory work with practical building, not just strategy language.
• Used side projects and independent products to stay close to the realities of modern tooling and platforms.

Late 2020s and onward

The pattern has stayed the same throughout the years: learn new technologies by actually using them. That currently means evaluating the fast-moving wave of AI tools and models, testing a growing range of AR glasses, building prototypes and trying to understand what is genuinely viable for clients now and what may matter next.