Jyri Genral - Senior Software Engineer

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Profile

Senior engineer with ~8 years building the embedded systems, integration and provisioning infrastructure behind supply-chain platforms. I work end-to-end within small teams - I like designing both architecture and authoring RFCs, through implementation, Kubernetes deployment, security and on-call. I focus on embedded and event-driven systems such as Apache Kafka, workflow orchestration and infrastructure-as-code. I am triple trained in military, aviation and physics, so I like to reason things such as distributed-systems problems from first principles, eg. consensus, CRDTs, idempotency, and try to deliver back decisions with measurable outcomes. I have served not only as the all-arounder occasional lead but also as the occasional mentor, and sometimes I am a student. I write the design docs, and drive architecture across teams. Be it ending up debugging hardware or reverse-engineering, I will find a way and enjoy learning on the way from the odd challenges. That is what keeps me going.

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Core Stack

Languages: Go, Python, Rust, TypeScript · SQL, Bash, Nix, C (with interests in eg. Haskell and Perl)
Streaming & Events: Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Schema Registry · event-driven architecture, and sometimes MQTT and Websockets just for fun
Orchestration & Runtime: Kubernetes, Temporal · Helm, Flux (GitOps), Docker / Podman
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform / OpenTofu · GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Nix / NixOS
Cloud & Data: Microsoft Azure (AKS, Container Apps, Entra ID, networking) · PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, AWS
Observability & Security: Datadog, Prometheus, Vector collection pipelines, OpenTelemetry, OAuth2 & OpenID Connect, Azure Workload Identity, Hashicorp Vault, Keycloak, X509 and friends, the CycloneDX ecosystem

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Experience

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RELEX Solutions

+ Nov 2021 - present · London / Remote +

Senior Software Developer - Shared Services / Data Bridge

Tech lead for a product REST API integration -- owning systems end-to-end from RFC and architecture to production deployment and on-call on both sides.
Re-architected customer-infrastructure provisioning onto Temporal durable workflows and direct cloud APIs, cutting deployment latency from tens of minutes to seconds while making it idempotent and observable.
Designed and shipped Azure Blob Storage deployment self-service with environment-isolated RBAC (a thorough test suite preventing test→prod writes), then migrated the entire existing customer base onto it.
Hardened internal platform identity: implemented AKS Workload Identity (added per-tenant, least-privilege OIDC) and migrated off SAS tokens and AKV2K8S ahead of deadlines, contributing the enabling upstream platform patches.
Built customer data ingestion (API Gateway deployment and data validation and authz plugins (Golang) + Kafka streaming message preprocessor microservice (Rust)) and automated new-customer onboarding taking it from multiple days to maximum of hours.

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Etteplan Oyj

+ Aug 2018 - Nov 2021 · Finland +

Software Designer

Delivered production Rust now sailing aboard Carnival Cruise Line's Mardi Gras, a cross-ship navigational data relay over a custom private wireless network; a Business Finland-backed project.
Embedded software and firmware in C/C++ for both battery and mains powered Bluetooth, LoRa and LoRaWAN devices, including protocol reverse-engineering and forensic reconstruction.
Built data-to-cloud pipelines and scientific edge-computing in Python; TypeScript / React web interfaces for industrial clients.
Occasional UI work in HTML5 / Typescript, JavaScript, and sometimes Python or C++

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Cinia Oy

+ Dec 2017 - Jun 2018 · Finland +

Junior Software Developer

Built test automation and orchestration, regression and exploratory testing, and DevOps tooling for Java Spring Boot projects.
Recruited directly out of university physics studies to join the team.

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Leadership & Open Source

International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) -- President 2019-20; IT Manager & Data Protection Officer 2018–20. Led a worldwide volunteer organisation and ran its IT and GDPR compliance.

Pro-bono solutions architect & tech lead -- since 2017. Hands-on architecture for IT / ICT projects backed by the Finnish state and industry, mainly for defence.

Open source · github.com/jyrama (public mirror of selected projects on the self-hosted tea.jrd.fi/jyrama)

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Education

Physics -- University of Jyväskylä. Left to enter industry, 2017.

Private Pilot Licence, PPL(A) -- Blue Skies Aviation, 2013.

Mil -- Finnish Defence Forces

Languages

Finnishnative
Englishnear-native
Germanbasic
Swedishbasic

Beyond Code

Electronics & RF -- designed and ran Radio Maxwell, a compliant FM broadcast system (signal-chain design, distributed control). Embedded / FPGA / DSP tinkering with GNU Radio.

A jack of all trades sysadmin and RF focused developer at MPK

Interests

Aviation, cycling, data analytics along ML algorithms, low-level systems & CPU architecture, reverse engineering, electronics and tuning the Linux kernel.

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+ Jyri Genral - Curriculum Vitae + Updated 25th ofJune 2026 +

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