risto@reipas:~$

Senior full-stack developer and founder based in Oulu, Finland. I build marketplace platforms and content infrastructure, mostly in Rails and on AWS.

What I'm building

Willit ↗

A coordination layer for local and wild food, connecting foragers, fishers, and small producers directly with consumers. Multi-tenant Rails 8 monolith (Solid Trifecta, Hotwire), running in production on European infrastructure. Co-funded by the EU via Oulun Seudun Leader ry (EAFRD 2023–2027).

Related: lahikalaa.fi (fish marketplace for commercial fishermen) and willit24.com (24/7 pickup cabinets with temperature monitoring).

Tech @ Rakentaja Mediat ↗

Leading technical work across content platforms serving 300k+ registered users, modernizing 40+ years of legacy systems with Next.js, Django Wagtail, and Terraform on AWS.

Open source

Lykky ↗

Go-to-market toolkit and knowledge base for Oulu startups.

VIEWS Forecast API

FastAPI service exposing the VIEWS conflict-forecasting dataset as a clean REST API.

Background

Roughly a decade across fintech, messaging platforms, and automotive systems before moving into founding and tech leadership. Earlier work spanned AI chat applications for banking, large-scale SMS infrastructure, and embedded HMI development.

Stack: Rails · Hotwire · React · Next.js · Python · Django · AWS · Terraform

Otherwise: forest, or my two sons → personal