MR. JAAKI BUILD THINGS.

I wrote some of my first programs on a Juku school computer. I also got access to a friend’s ZX Spectrum, and later I had my own early PC with a processor running at only a few MHz. Those machines were limited, but that limitation was part of the fun: you had to understand what the computer could do and then figure out how to make something happen with it.

I would have liked to study computing more seriously, but financially that wasn’t possible at the time. Life took me into another professional field, and computing remained a hobby — sometimes active, sometimes almost completely absent — but the interest in building solutions never disappeared.

What has always interested me most is not technology for its own sake. It is the act of inventing a solution: noticing that something is awkward, inefficient or missing, understanding why, and then creating a better way to do it.

That mindset followed me into my everyday work as well. Whether the problem is physical or digital, I tend to approach it the same way: look at the full system, find the weak point, fix the cause instead of the symptom, and make the result practical enough that people will actually use it.