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UpCloud appoints Teemu Toppola as Head of Product
UpCloud is delighted to announce the appointment of Teemu Toppola as our new Head of Product, effective September 1st, 2023. Teemu joined UpCloud in 2021 as a Team Coach, advancing to Head of Engineering by early 2022. Having excelled in his roles over the past two years, Teemu was promoted to the role of Head […]
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Lauri Ikonen, Former Head of Google’s Finnish Data Center, Appointed to Lead UpCloud’s Strategy and Operations
UpCloud has appointed Lauri Ikonen as the company’s Chief Strategy and Operating Officer. Ikonen, who took the position on August 1st, has more than 15 years of leadership experience in service and project businesses at Google and ABB, among others. Ikonen will focus on UpCloud’s growth and scaling the company’s operations. “I have kept an […]
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Ville Vesilehto: Taking a customer-centric approach to building UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes
Building a successful product requires a customer-centric approach, agile ways of working, and cross-team collaboration. The UpCloud Orchestration Team has been doing just that recently, ahead of the launch of UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes (UKS). We talked to Ville Vesilehto, a Product Owner in the Orchestration Team, to ask all about the product creation journey. As […]
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Team Orchestration: Agile and collaborative ways of working
UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes Service will help customers save costs and increase efficiency and performance. But building the platform took flexibility and agility from a tightly-knit team. To find out more from the team behind the platform, we spoke to Filipe Berti, Team Coach, to find out how the group promotes agile and collaborative ways of […]
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Nathaniel Ham: Solving problems for customers with Managed Kubernetes
Before you invest time and resources into building a new product, you have to know that it will meet the needs of your customers. When UpCloud’s Orchestration Team set out to build UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes (UKS) platform, how did they know what customers needed? And how did they turn that knowledge into the final product? […]
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Filipe Berti: Working and living abroad – from Brazil to Finland
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work abroad? Alongside providing flexible opportunities for remote work, UpCloud also supports employees with relocation. Read our colleague Filipe’s story of moving from Brazil to Finland. In 2021, a friend sent Filipe a job posting – UpCloud was looking for an Agile Team Coach to […]
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Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala join UpCloud as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer respectively
Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala have joined the UpCloud leadership team as chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief financial officer (CFO) reporting to our CEO Antti Vilpponen. Annukka brings a wealth of experience in consulting and auditing and has previous experience from PwC. She holds an accreditation as a Finnish Authorised Public Accountant. Annukka joined […]
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Timothy Ho: At UpCloud, we inject fun into everything we do
Timothy has been a part of UpCloud’s Singapore office for almost two years. As a Technical Support Specialist, he helps our users globally with various technical issues and questions related to our infrastructure. When you joined UpCloud, did you have any previous experience with cloud computing? In my previous company, I worked as a support […]
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Antti Vilpponen: My door at UpCloud is always open
Antti Vilpponen became UpCloud’s CEO in 2014. Since then, the company has successfully grown from a start-up to the European leader in providing high-performance cloud hosting. How does Antti see the company and its users nowadays, and what makes him happy at work? What makes UpCloud stand out from the others? At UpCloud, we focus […]
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