Kangasala, Finland
Software Developer and AI Entrepreneur
Twenty-odd years in software: test automation for Nokia phones, customer service platforms for contact centers and now SaaS products developed together with my business partners.
It started in the 1990s in front of a Commodore 64, and I never really left that path. I graduated in business information technology from Tampere Business College in 2004 at the top of my class. Software has been my job ever since.
During my first decade in the industry, I tested software and built test tools for clients such as Nokia and Microsoft. I spent the next decade building multichannel customer service platforms at Provad and twoday, most recently as Chief Technology Officer. In February 2026, I became a full-time entrepreneur. At Lait On Oy, my business partners and I develop SaaS products together. I also provide software development for the two founders of AIAnt Oy, while freelance assignments are contracted through I-Cat Internet Catalog Tmi.
I live in Kangasala and off hours, you’ll find me in the forest or playing games, increasingly often ones I built myself.
We founded the company together. We develop the SaaS products ilmastoselvitys.ai and lakitulkki.ai.
I provide software development for the company’s two founders.
I handle freelance assignments through my sole proprietorship, I-Cat Internet Catalog.
Provad was acquired by Visma and later continued as twoday AI Works. I stayed with the contact center product, most recently as CTO: technology choices, architecture and a heavily automated Azure DevOps delivery pipeline.
Development of a multichannel contact center platform (Provad ICC) and system integrations, bringing voice, chat, email and bots into one platform.
Software testing and the design and development of test tools for clients including Nokia and Microsoft. I was a core developer of the Testability Driver automation framework and worked on Nokia Communicator products.
Internship and development of the Aretail application.
Design and implementation of the museums’ reservation system.
Security work before the software career.
SaaS products developed jointly by the two founders of Lait On Oy, plus my personal open-source side project. All are in real use.
Upload an IFC model, Excel file or PDF. The app detects materials, calculates emissions using Finnish CO2data.fi coefficients and produces the official report required for a building permit. A typical run completes in 2–5 minutes.
An AI reads the contract or document for you and explains in plain language what you are committing to, where the risks hide and what to ask before signing.
A desktop app that listens to game events and works as your bridge operator. It includes a memory bank, voice control, speech synthesis and screen awareness. The app runs on Windows and Linux, and its source code is open.
Evenings and weekends produce games and tools. Everything below runs right in your browser:
Projects from two decades, from servo arms to industrial robots and help texts in 52 languages.
I worked on the multichannel customer service platform from September 2014. The project put all my earlier experience to use while still teaching me something new every week.
An app store for web services, inspired by Google Play and the App Store. Built with PHP and MySQL, it detected the user’s language automatically. Popularity rankings were derived from social media signals before any user reviews existed. The project lives on today as blinkki.com.
A C# application for running automated tests with a physical robot. The first prototype was a robot arm built from servo motors; after that the controller drove a Thermo Scientific CRS F3 industrial robot.
An open-source test automation framework for Qt applications. I was a core developer from 2010 to 2012 and made more than 500 commits across the driver, Qt agent, SUT adapter and visualizer. My work focused on reporting and diagnostics as well as the Ruby-based TDRunner, whose releases have received more than 75,000 downloads on RubyGems.
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Implementation and rollout of test automation for Communicator applications using Nokia’s automation tooling. Results were reported into Executioner 2.0, which I maintained.
Automatic verification of help texts on N-series phones in 52 languages from Arabic to Chinese: the test opened an app, navigated to its help text and compared the content against the spec.
A mobile device test automation tool that evolved from AutoIt scripts into a VB.NET desktop application. The tool was used in production for Nokia’s mobile phone test automation.
I maintained and developed a test management and reporting tool immediately after graduation. It used VB 6.0 and MySQL and exported results to Excel.
Two decades of testing, integrations and production systems have taught me that quality is not a phase at the end of a project. It is a way of working. Today’s AI tools, open language models and code harnesses help me turn ideas into working products faster.
MEMORY TRACES: C64 BASIC · VB 6.0 · VB.NET · Ruby · Qt · AutoIt · PHP · Jenkins · WordPress
I take on freelance assignments through I-Cat Internet Catalog. Email me if you need a developer for your project.
mika@laiton.ai
