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Mikko Tormala

Director of Software Engineering specializing in AI-native full-stack product engineering

SiemensMetropolia University of Applied SciencesLos Angeles, CA25 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks Remote

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Engineering director and former front-end engineering manager with a strong blend of people leadership, UX/design-system ownership, and hands-on technical depth. At Siemens, they led a 15-person US/Europe team through a SaaS-era design-system transformation, winning over resistant product teams and exceeding adoption goals; at Intellimize, they solved legacy-browser constraints with a custom TypeScript-based build pipeline that improved quality, morale, and user experience.

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Key Strengths

  • Led a 15-person cross-functional engineering and UX team across the US and Europe
  • Managed managers across both software development and UX functions
  • Turned hostile internal product teams into partners and exceeded design system adoption targets
  • Strong change-management approach centered on education over enforcement
  • Built operating rhythms with weekly roundtables and UX board meetings to align multiple product teams
  • Hands-on technical leader who redesigned build pipelines to enable TypeScript while preserving IE11 support
  • Improved developer productivity and code quality through modern front-end tooling strategy
  • Reduced bundle sizes and improved customer experience with customer-specific compilation and minification
  • Implemented AI-driven visual QA that cut visual bug rates to a fraction of prior levels
  • Effective at balancing competing roadmap demands across large, historically siloed teams

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Experience

Director of Software EngineeringSiemens · Oct 2023 – Oct 2025
Software Engineering ManagerIntellimize · Sep 2020 – Oct 2023
Engineering Manager / Principal Full-stack DeveloperAKQA · Mar 2008 – Sep 2020
Lead DeveloperFWD Helsinki · May 2007 – Mar 2008
Freelance Senior Full-Stack Web DeveloperVarious Agencies · Jul 2005 – May 2007freelance
Lieutenant / Platoon LeaderFinnish Defense Forces · Jul 2004 – Jul 2005
Web Designer / DeveloperTieturi · Jul 2000 – Jul 2004

Education

Metropolia University of Applied Sciencesbachelor, Media Engineering / Computer Science

Skills

Full-stack developmentSoftware engineeringSDLCDevOpsTeam leadershipCross-functional collaborationStakeholder managementTechnical documentationGenerative AIAgentic AIAgileFront-end developmentTypeScriptReactGraphQL

Languages

EnglishFrenchFinnishGerman

Certifications

AWS Certified

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Mikko TormalaDirector of Software Engineering specializing in AI-native full-stack product engineering