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Tuomas Niemi
Tuomas Niemi

Tuomas Niemi

Site Reliability Engineer · Tampere, Finland

Open to new roles Board owner 10+ yrs in production ops
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Tuomas Niemi
Board ownerSRE

Hi, I'm Tuomas.

I'm a Site Reliability Engineer from Tampere, Finland. I keep large distributed systems fast, observable and pleasantly boring, so product teams can ship quickly without getting paged at 3 a.m.

Over the past decade I've run on-call for payment platforms and cloud hosting, built SLO programs from scratch, and turned a lot of manual toil into small, well-tested automation.

📍 Tampere, FI
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Mission

Make reliability a product feature

Reliability is something users feel, not a dashboard colour. I work closely with developers to define what "good" means, measure it honestly, and spend error budgets on purpose.

Description
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Principles

How I operate

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Status

Currently

  • Open to Senior SRE / Platform roles
  • Remote, or hybrid in Tampere & Helsinki
  • Languages: Finnish (native), English (fluent), Swedish (basic)
⏱ Updated Nov 2026

Skills

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Cloud & Platform

Kubernetes & cloud infrastructure

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Observability

Metrics, logs & traces

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Automation

Code & automation

GoPythonBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CIAnsibleSQL

I write production-grade tooling: operators, CLIs, CI pipelines and the occasional Slack bot — tested, reviewed and documented like any other service.

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IncidentsReliability

Incident response & resilience

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In progress

Currently learning

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⏱ Q1 2027

Projects

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ReliabilityObservability

SLO burn-rate alerting overhaul

Replaced 400+ static threshold alerts with multi-window, multi-burn-rate SLO alerts generated from a single YAML spec per service.

−68%pages / week
41services on SLOs
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✓ Shipped 2025
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Cloud

Zero-downtime migration to EKS

Led the move of 120 microservices from self-managed clusters to Amazon EKS with Argo CD, Karpenter and progressive traffic shifting.

EKSArgo CDKarpenterTerraform
0customer-facing incidents
−32%compute cost
✓ Shipped 2024
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IncidentsReliability

Quarterly chaos game days

Designed a fault-injection programme (zone loss, DNS failure, dependency latency) with scripted scenarios and a scoring rubric for teams.

47→18min median MTTR
14game days run
🔁 Recurring
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ObservabilityAutomation

Telemetry cost diet

Rebuilt the observability pipeline around OpenTelemetry Collectors with tail-based sampling and log-level budgets per team.

−41%observability bill
100%trace coverage, tier-1
✓ Shipped 2023
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AutomationIncidents

runbook-bot (open source)

A small Go service that enriches every alert in Slack with its runbook, recent deploys and a one-click incident channel.

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⭐ Side project

Experience

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CurrentReliability

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kaleva Cloud Oy · Tampere · 2022 – present

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📅 2022 →
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IncidentsObservability

Site Reliability Engineer

Pohjoisvirta Payments · Helsinki (hybrid) · 2018 – 2022

  • Kept card-processing APIs at 99.99% through Black Friday peaks of 9k tx/s
  • Introduced incident command roles and blameless postmortems
  • Moved metrics from Nagios to Prometheus & Grafana
✓ 4 yrs
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Automation

Systems Engineer

Hervanta Hosting Oy · Tampere · 2014 – 2018

  • Ran 600+ Linux hosts for managed hosting customers
  • Automated server provisioning with Ansible — from 2 days to 20 minutes
✓ 4 yrs
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Education

Education & certifications

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Contact

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Response SLO

What to expect

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🕘 EET / EEST
Good topics

Let's talk about…

  • Senior SRE or platform engineering roles
  • SLO programme and on-call health reviews
  • Conference talks & meetups on reliability