Samppa Turunen
Samppa Turunen

Samppa Turunen

Technology leader · Product and engineering · Business coach

Espoo, Finland +358 40 500 20 23 turunen.samppa@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/sampppaturunen samppaturunen.com

Profile

I have spent 26 years connecting technology, product and business as an engineer, Product Director, CTO and COO. My work spans healthcare technology, public-sector systems, cloud gaming, smart homes and indoor positioning. I lead through coaching and stay close to delivery: shaping strategy, developing teams and building AI and software products myself. I am most useful where a complex technical programme needs clear priorities, practical leadership and trust across organisational boundaries.

26+
years in software
4
senior leadership roles
ICF
accredited coach training
AI
hands-on product builder
Product leadershipStrategy, discovery, portfolios and roadmaps
Technology leadershipArchitecture, modernisation, cloud and IoT
People leadershipCoaching, trust and cross-functional teams
Commercial deliveryB2B SaaS, telcos, RFPs and scaling

Professional experience

Consultant Technical PO/PM and Coach · Everon Group

Planning and driving a healthcare technology platform renewal across Finland, Sweden and the UK, while helping product and engineering teams adopt practical AI-native ways of working.

  • Leading the move from legacy on-premise hardware to a modern recurring-revenue cloud SaaS platform.
  • Acting as hands-on product owner, programme lead and coach across strategy, architecture and delivery.
  • Coaching developers and QA in safe AI-assisted development, testing and tooling.

Consultant ICT Product Owner · Traficom / Nextcon Consulting

Product ownership for a large mission-critical IT modernisation programme in a compliance-heavy Finnish government environment.

  • Defined product vision and prioritisation across engineering, legal, operations and vendor teams.
  • Improved team momentum and morale through agile practices and a clan-based team structure.
  • Led an AI study with NCSC-FI to enable controlled proofs of concept.

COO and CTO · Wiztivi, Finnish subsidiary

Led product strategy, engineering and organisational design for a 35-person Finnish cloud-gaming company serving major European telcos.

  • Owned product roadmap and investment priorities; customer satisfaction moved from poor to excellent.
  • Kept monthly iterative delivery with Orange and SFR across Finnish and French teams.
  • Built an ML and A/B-testing pipeline for subscription churn reduction.
  • Led the organisation through two acquisitions while maintaining delivery and team stability.
Samppa Turunen · Curriculum vitae 1 / 3
Samppa Turunen Technology, product and engineering leadership

Earlier experience

CTO · Cozify

Led product and engineering strategy for an IoT and smart-home SaaS startup.

  • Focused limited engineering investment on core product quality, customer value and scalable commercial work.
  • Implemented a Python microservice and event-streaming platform on AWS ECS with Terraform.
  • Established information-security policy and processes.

Product Director · IndoorAtlas

Took a novel indoor-positioning platform from beta to market launch and established product management and customer-discovery practices.

  • Defined product vision and a phased roadmap to maturity, with board-level investment reporting.
  • Built cross-functional discovery and prioritisation around outcomes instead of feature volume.
  • Managed customer relationships in Europe and Asia as the platform passed one million monthly users.

Director, Product Development and Deployments · G-cluster

Helped scale one of Europe's first cloud-gaming platforms through major telco deployments, enterprise deals and long-term customer partnerships.

  • Led the lifecycle from RFP and architecture through pilot, launch and ongoing service.
  • Introduced monthly iterative releases into customer launch programmes that had previously used waterfall delivery.
  • Launched commercial services for major European telcos and built relationships that lasted for years.

Selected hands-on work

  • AI Ship Systems Design (AISSD) — production RAG and LLM application for analysing technical documents with LangChain pipelines.
  • Tap'n Go — ESP32 RFID access-control hardware and React software in a commercial shipyard pilot.
  • Electricity-price control — embedded controller that moves consumption away from expensive hours.
  • Automated gate access — Raspberry Pi, Vertex AI and OCR pipeline for licence-plate recognition.
  • Indoor library guidance — shelf-location navigation delivered for the City of Espoo.

Technical range

AI agents and workflows · LangChain and RAG · Python · JavaScript and React · C/C++ · AWS and GCP · Terraform · microservices · data analytics · IoT and embedded systems

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