Ville Seppänen

Cloud / DevOps / Cybersecurity Freelancer

Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

About

I help software teams adopt practices and tools that enable them to deliver web services of the future. Having worked in different roles in software research, development, testing, cloud operations, as well as project management, I have a holistic understanding of software business. I excel in summarizing technical complexities to non-technical customers, and often work also as a project manager, a scrum master or a coach. My hands-on expertise is cloud architecture and automation, continuous integration pipelines, container orchestration, serverless technologies and agile development practices.

Experience

  • Cloud & DevOps Consultant | Independent Contractor at Vilsepi Oy
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Cloud services consultancy in all levels from management consultancy and project management to architecture design and implementation of tools and cloud infrastructure.

  • DevOps Consultant at Polar Squad
    Aug 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Helping customers in their DevOps transformation, enabling them to adopt modern software development practices and tools.

  • Gofore (Full-time · 5 yrs 11 mos)
    • Lead Consultant, Cloud Services
      May 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Cloud services consultancy in all levels from management consultancy to architecture design and implementation of tools and cloud infrastructure. Infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud training, business development and recruitment. In addition to customer projects, I also help in recruiting, speak and attend at small events, host in-house training, develop a new business area and actively contribute to developing the company culture.

    • Technical Project Manager
      Nov 2015 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Project management and cloud operations in several agile software projects. Infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, supporting fullstack development.

    • Fullstack Software Engineer
      Oct 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Fullstack but mainly backend and ops-focused engineering in several agile software projects. I also worked as a Scrum Master in most of the projects.

  • Researcher at Tampere University of Technology
    Feb 2012 - May 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    I researched the use of Cloud Computing and Software-Defined Networking for automated network management, service discovery and flow management in massive-scale heterogenous IoT networks. I also completed several post-graduate courses, supervised a Master's thesis on distributed volunteer computing, and worked as a course assistant by evaluating course assignments.

  • Software Engineer Trainee / Thesis Worker at Tieto
    Dec 2010 - Jun 2011 · 7 mos

    I did my Master's Thesis for Tieto, participating in the Finnish Cloud Software Program. I researched and developed software that elastically acquires computing capacity from cloud services for building Linux software packages. The system dynamically accommodates server capacity to load spikes, optimizing build cost and time by maintaining an optimal number of server instances in a build cluster. I familiarized myself with Open Build Service and Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and developed an elasticity manager program using Python and boto.