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IT Consultant — Compliance & Treasury
Before
Country launch days away. All systems 'ready.' While working on the banking integration, I discovered that our entire micro-service payment infrastructure couldn't handle the special accounting standards for the new country expansion. We either couldn't pay out anybody, or risked millions in fines. No accountant in the entire organization wanted to make a decision on it.
After
Identified the critical blind spot no one else saw. Escalated through cross-team collaboration with Merchant Payouts and the Head of Treasury. Resolved through 43-person crisis meeting with Ernst & Young, creating a mandatory compliance framework for all future country expansions.
1000x Performance Gain
Google Cloud Expert & Software Engineer
Before
28-hour batch jobs failing daily. 6+ engineers monitoring. Stale pricing data on customer-facing systems. Constant escalations from business stakeholders across 169 stores in 9 countries.
After
Fully automated real-time streaming pipeline. Zero manual intervention. Always-current data for 1M+ products across 169 stores — delivering 6-figure annual savings while freeing engineers for innovation.
95% Infrastructure Acceleration
Tech Lead — Google Cloud Infrastructure
Before
Infrastructure provisioning taking 2–4 weeks per environment. Inconsistent environments, manual processes, and no automation framework driving delivery delays.
After
Architected and delivered 26 production-ready Terraform modules. Infrastructure provisioning accelerated from 2–4 weeks to just 1–2 hours — enabling the digital modernization to stay on schedule.
Multi-Engineer Team & Multi-Million Contracts
CTO
Before
Founding CTO of a US-based software agency. Needed to build the engineering team from scratch, establish delivery capability, and win Fortune 500 contracts including NASA.
After
Led an international engineering team of 7 across 3 countries. Recruited former Apple engineers. Secured multi-million dollar contracts. Delivered an innovative VR application for NASA alongside other enterprise projects.
"I had the pleasure of working with Lars on a project in early 2025, and I was thoroughly impressed by his proactive mindset and ability to move fast. Lars consistently demonstrated a strong bias for action — he didn't wait around but took the initiative to push things forward. His decisiveness made a real difference to the pace and outcome of our work together."
Timo Manunen
Treasury Manager, Head of Treasury Operations, Wolt
"Lars is a highly talented and dedicated technology consultant with extensive knowledge of cloud technologies. He is always up for exciting challenges and works independently. Lars is constantly developing his skills and doesn't rest until the task is completed."
Tibor Bazlen
Solutions Architect, Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG