CTO Managed Services

Orchestrating AI-Driven DevOps and Platform Engineering

Kalle Sirkesalo, CTO Managed Services

Kalle Sirkesalo is the CTO of Managed Services at Eficode. He guides organizations through the complexities of modern software development, with a focus on integrating AI-powered tools, DevSecOps best practices, and advanced platform engineering.

Kalle actively shares his insights on how AI-native software development can enhance developer productivity and secure software delivery. He is a familiar face at industry events, webinars, and podcasts, frequently speaking about responsible AI adoption, secure DevOps governance, and the future of platform engineering.

Outside his professional engagements, Kalle enjoys sailing, an activity that reflects his commitment to precision, strategy, and adaptability.

In his blog post, Kalle discusses how Azure OpenAI can create long-term value for our experts and customers while cautioning organizations that it requires time and focus to understand it.

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Latest talks

Kalle draws from a decade of managing GitHub Enterprise Server, discussing challenges, solutions, and best practices in upkeep, maintenance, and scalability. His insights in 2024 included navigating complex migrations, ensuring robust backup strategies, and integrating CI/CD pipelines effectively using GitHub Actions.

Modern CI/CD at Scale: From Chaos to Controlled Efficiency. In this session of the DEVOPS Conference in 2023, Kalle shared practical experiences and strategies for scaling CI/CD processes in regulated industries, emphasizing the importance of infrastructure-as-code, robust automation, and security integration to ensure sustainable and scalable software development practices.

At Expert Summit 2023, Kalle joined Adam Dziomdziora to discuss this topic and share insights on it in more detail.

Watch Kalle share their real-life experiences of upkeep, maintenance, support, and service for GitHub Enterprise Server in this talk he gave at ARTTECH 2022.

In this talk, Kalle collaborated with other experts to explain how the Snyk and BitBucket integration on the Eficode ROOT DevOps platform simplifies software development with better DevOps performance, bringing automation, efficiency, and faster time to market.

At the DevSecOps & Quality Assurance 2019 event in Helsinki, Kalle gave an overview of how companies have implemented DevSecOps practices in their delivery pipelines and how this can help increase developers' awareness of the risks that affect them.

Kalle shared stories of Atlassian Data Center deployment and management in live environments at The DEVOPS Conference 2018. Watch this talk to see him explain why Eficode upgraded to the Data Center model and the new features it brought to Jira with demos.

At DEVOPS 2018, Kalle presented how microservices and IoT are constantly used in the Sauna ecosystem and why DevOps is the most important thing.

In his blog post, Kalle details some of the challenges that come from implementing DevOps into banking and finance, including platform engineering, orchestration, security, talent management, and efficiency optimization.

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