Kim Valkama Infrastructure & Platform Engineer | BBA
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Infrastructure & Platform Engineer with 13+ years of experience owning and operating production systems.
I design Linux-based infrastructure with a focus on reliability, cost-efficiency, and developer productivity—favoring pragmatic solutions over unnecessary complexity, and building systems that hold up under real-world conditions.
Operational philosophy
- Failure is a guarantee — design for it.
- Simplicity matters — complexity is a liability.
- Everything should log — you can’t fix what you can’t see.
- Data is not safe — until it exists outside your system.
- Manual repetition creates friction — automation reduces it.
Professional Experience
Viomba Oy,
Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
06/2021 - Present | Remote, Finland
- Engineered a 2-tier DR framework using Local and AWS Glacier backups.
- Led recurring infrastructure optimizations, cutting hosting costs by up to 40%.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, maintaining 99.9% platform uptime.
- Built custom CLI orchestrators and Ansible suites for fault-tolerant scaling.
Pharazon AB,
Linux System administrator
05/2020 - 06/2021 | Helsinki, Finland
- Led data-center migration and fiber provisioning.
- Managed diverse service stacks (Jenkins, Exim, crawlers, customer applications).
- Built infrastructure for a new branch office; maintained HQ networking, servers, and dev environments.
Cycle IT,
Entrepreneur
08/2018 - 10/2020 | Espoo, Finland
- Managed client web infrastructure and deployed small-scale network architectures.
- Provided end-to-end IT support and server maintenance for SMEs and non-profits.
Relex Solutions,
Application Specialist
05/2017 - 02/2019 | Helsinki, Finland
- Served as escalation point for complex issues in large-scale production systems.
- Participated in incident recovery and performed emergency production restore.
Integral Oy,
System administrator
06/2013 - 01/2017 | Helsinki, Finland
- Performed manual migration of internal wiki infrastructure to a new system.
- Resolved technical issues and performed workstation hardware upgrades.
Education
Full stack dev course,
Opiframe Oy
04/2020 - 10/2020 | Espoo, Finland
- Core tech: React, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB.
Bachelor of Business Administration,
Laurea UAS
08/2013 - 08/2016 | Espoo, Finland
- Thesis: Automating an IT environment with a service delivery platform [Link]