# vegai (@vga.mu.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/vga.mu.social
Headline: Tpyist
Location: Finland

## About

Interested in cool, motivated, intelligent, fun people & teams & projects.

Reach me via
\- Signal
\- Matrix => @vegai:kapsi.fi  If you wish to call me, do send some kind of a message first or I will most probably immediately block your phone number.

## Career

- **Principal Developer at Rise Financial Group** (Oct 2025 - Present)
  FI
- **Solution Architect at NordHero** (Jan 2023 - Sep 2025)
  FI
  AWS thingamajigies.
- **Lead Architect at Aiwo Digital** (Apr 2020 - Dec 2022)
  FI
  AI/ML doodling.
- **Principal IT Architect at Qvantel** (Jan 2018 - Mar 2020)
  Jyvskyl Area, FI
  Bringing automation in, tossing manual grind out.
- **Founder, Chief Metaphysicist at Discord Technologies Inc.** (2016 - Oct 2019)
  Wrote Mastering Rust for Packt Publishing. Did some consulting in the IT/Software sector. This corporation is now in a frozen state.
- **IT Architect at Qvantel** (Sep 2017 - Jan 2018)
  More cloudy ops and CDIO stuff.
- **Software Architect at Qvantel** (Jan 2017 - Sep 2017)
  Cloudy devops & opdevs.
- **Senior Systems Architect at Paytrail** (Mar 2013 - Dec 2016)
  Designed and implemented payment service systems, both on software and systems side. Part of the 24/7 on-duty officer ring.
- **Software developer / System specialist at Qvantel** (2006 - 2013)
  FI
  Helped build and maintain two mobile businesses from scratch in Finland and Europe, and maintain a few other already existing ones. Worked in web programming, low-level systems programming, systems maintenance and 24/7 technical on-duty over all systems.
- **Software developer at Nomovok Ltd.** (2004 - 2006)
  Finland
  Worked with Nokia's Linux-based prototypes. Came almost near to making a huge difference in the mobile industry.

## Publications

- Mastering Rust — Packt Publishing (May 2017) https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-rust

## Skills

### Technical
- MySQL
### Other
- Architecture
- Autonomous
- BSD
- C
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Continuous Integration
- Crypto
- Devops
- Django
- English
- Experimenting
- Functional Programming
- ITIL
- Linux
- Minimalism
- Open Source
- Operating Systems
- Pioneering
- PostgreSQL
- Programming
- Programming Languages
- Python
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- Rust
- Science
- Shell Scripting
- Skunkworks
- Software Architectural Design
- Software Design
- Software Development
- System Administration
- Teaching
- Technical Leadership
- Technical Writing
- Test Driven Development
- Unix
- Web Applications
- Web Development

## Education

- **Jyväskylän yliopisto** — Bachelor of Science (BS) (2002 - 2013)
  Majored in Mathematical Computer Science, minor in mathematics and English philology.
  Activities & Societies: Member of Board / Webmaster in the maths/IT/physics student council Ynnä.

## Courses

- Edx / Introduction to Functional Programming
- Coursera / Cryptography 1

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- Arch Linux (Jun 2008 - Jan 2015)
  Developer

## Languages

- English (native)
- Finnish (native)
- French (elementary)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vesa-kaihlavirta-926aa381