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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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Jasper Jonk: I like to be the trusted advisor
Our Business Development Manager Jasper started his career as a consultant in an IT company. When he decided to move to Finland, he had yet no idea that UpCloud was at the same time looking for a Dutch speaker salesperson with an IT background. As Jasper himself puts it, it was a match made in […]
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Eetu Ritvanen: I enjoy the freedom in managing my work time
Our System Administrator Eetu has been with UpCloud for four years. Initially, he joined the company in the position of a Customer Support Engineer. He helped to build the foundations for the Support team and UpCloud’s customer support as we know it today. How were your beginnings in UpCloud? I joined the company in November […]
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Antti Myyrä: Coders must keep in mind that everyone makes mistakes
Antti has been working as a software architect at UpCloud for over a year. After starting with cloud APIs and backend services, he now works for the operations team that runs our cloud platform, dealing with new hardware, datacenter operations and overseeing that the platform is healthy. What does Antti like about being a software […]
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