Lauri enjoys working with public clouds and automation. He is especially fond of Google Cloud, but feels also at home with AWS and Azure.
With a Master's in Computer Science, Lauri has accumulated over a decade of industry expertise spanning telecommunications, marine, and medical sectors. Currently Lauri finds purpose in charting the territories between the human and the machine, or in layman’s terms, helping teams and decision-makers understand how technology organisations work in relation to their tools, people and processes.
At Verifa, he’s helped several customers navigate complex cloud migrations, as well as advising on a range of technical solutions and process improvements. A champion for the end-users, Lauri drives teams to align their goals and methodology with those that bring in both value and customer satisfaction.
Besides work Lauri still keeps it fundamentally nerdy with activities ranging from extreme sports to obscure music and hobbyist boardgames to ballroom dances.
Posts by author
Event
2024-05-22
1 minutes
Service Levels, Error budgets, and why your dev teams should care
A talk at DevOps Finland on what different Service Level concepts mean and how a software development team could use them effectively in the software delivery process.
Blog
2023-12-07
11 minutes
Demystifying Service Level acronyms and Error Budgets
In this fundamental level blog post I will explain what different Service Level concepts mean and how to use them effectively in the software delivery process.
Blog
2022-11-30
3 minutes
Veri-nice to meet you, Lauri
Introducing Lauri Suomalainen, one of our Cloud Architects.
Podcast
2022-08-16
38 minutes
A sneak peek into UpCloud Kubernetes Service
In this episode of The Continuous & Cloud Podcast, Jacob and Lauri chat with Ville Törhönen, Product Owner at UpCloud, about UpCloud’s upcoming managed Kubernetes Service (UKS).
Blog
2022-04-13
4 minutes
Verifa adopts an open salary policy
Our Open Salary Policy has taken many months to develop, but is now part of who we are and how we work. Let’s explore some of the changes this brings to us as a team.
Blog
2022-01-08
5 minutes
One year at Verifa: A retrospective
Our Cloud Architect, Lauri takes a look back at his first year as a consultant at Verifa.
Podcast
2021-03-30
33 minutes
A first look at GKE Autopilot
In Verifa's first podcast we discuss Google's new Autopilot for Kubernetes, and what it means to have a managed Kubernetes service.
Blog
2020-11-05
6 minutes
How to automatically deploy applications to a private GKE Cluster using CloudBuild
This article describes the problem of automatically deploying code to a private GKE cluster and my workaround solution to it.