Kim Valkama Infrastructure & Platform Engineer | BBA

Profile

Languages: Finnish | Swedish | English

Infrastructure & Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience designing, maintaining, and scaling custom inhouse built environments.

Passionate about automation and security, skilled in solving complex issues and debugging. Embraces software development as needed.

Professional Experience

Viomba Oy,

Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

06/2021 - Present | Remote, Finland

Rebuilt cloud infrastructure, reducing hosting costs by 25%.
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipeline using github actions and in-house tools, ensuring 99% availability.
Implemented 2-tier backup for essential data, with a local and an AWS glacier copy.
Created documentation and implemented a disaster recovery plan.
Frequently used technology: AWS, Ansible, Bash, GitHub Actions, Zabbix, Nginx, MySQL, JS, PHP, Git.

Pharazon AB,

Linux System administrator

05/2020 - 06/2021 | Helsinki, Finland

Organized and set up new office location in Tampere.
Updated and migrated internal data-center to new location, decreasing critical software downtime by an estimated 50%.
Supported ~70 developers at Helsinki and Tampere office with Linux, debugging and programming related issues.

Cycle IT,

Entrepreneur

08/2018 - 10/2020 | Espoo, Finland

Worked with small offices, private customers and non-profits.
Projects included data recovery, networking, workstation and server support.

Relex Solutions,

Application Specialist

05/2017 - 02/2019 | Helsinki, Finland

Tech support for in-house built java application.
Worked on escalated issues.

Integral Oy,

System administrator

06/2013 - 01/2017 | Helsinki, Finland

Server and workstation maintenance.
Part time during studies.

Education

Full stack dev course,

Opiframe Oy

04/2020 - 10/2020 | Espoo

Core tech: React, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB.
Course included working on a project for a customer, accepted a position at said customer after the project was completed.

Bachelor of Business Administration,

Laurea UAS

08/2013 - 08/2016 | Remote, Finland

Focus on Networking and CS.
Thesis written on automation. [Link]