Introducing Jani Sillanpää as Customer Success Manager

I have studied Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Technology (BSc., Msc.). I also graduated from Strategic Leadership Program in University of Tampere (eMBA).

I have worked almost 25 years in consulting and engineering companies. I started as thesis worker and designer and ended up to director and SVP positions. My former employer was FCG Finnish Consulting Group Ltd. I worked there almost 12 years.

I also have some experience in the software business. In my study years I developed a reporting solution for wastewater treatment plant’s operating and authority reporting. I sold that business to FCG when I started there. In my business unit we had FCG Smart team who developed and sold reporting/BI and network modelling softwares.

I have been interested on digitalization and specially digitalization of infrastucture construction process. Infrakit was a very interesting and pioneering company in that field. I’m glad to get involved in making this change. This change is also significant from the point of view of economic and ecological sustainablity.

On my free-time I enjoy my family, sports, music and outdoors.

ProDigial research programme awarded at the Kuntatekniikan päivät infrastructure event in Pori, Finland – Infrakit part of pilot projects in Lahti and Jyväskylä

Tampere University originally reported on the topic on 8 June 2022, read the original article in Finnish here.

The ProDigial research programme of the university’s Research Centre Terra was awarded as a successful development project at the Kuntatekniikan päivät-infrastructure event held in Pori.

The Finnish Association of Municipal Engineering (FAME) gives out the “Kuntatekniikka development initiative achievement” award annually to significant construction and development projects that have a wide national impact.

The aim of the research programme is to develop means and operating models that improve productivity, promote the utilisation of digitalisation throughout the entire life cycle of the infrastructure and provide an overall picture of the system. Practical infrastructure projects testing new means and operating models form an integral part of the research. (8 June 2022 tuni.fi)

Infrakit has been involved in the research in the pilot projects carried out in Lahti and Jyväskylä.

The infrastructure project carried out at an old garrison in Hennala, Lahti, focuses on the construction of a residential area for 5,000 people, in a manner that respects its history and using the early contractor involvement model. The aim of the project, in which Infrakit is a key application provider and development partner, is to develop an operating model for setting and verifying quality requirements.

The pilot project carried out in Jyväskylä aims to develop BIM utilisation in site management. The project focusing on the restoration of River Tourujoki functions as the development platform. In the project, Infrakit acts as a key application provider that carries out the practical work to provide a snapshot for site management.

Read more about the research and pilot projects in Finnish here.

Introducing Srikanta Patra as Quality Assurance Lead

About Srikanta’s background

I am Srikanta Patra and I am very happy to start my new position as QA Lead and enjoying the nice working culture of Infrakit. I was born & brought up in India and completed my Engineering in Information Technology & MBA in Retails & Supply Chain Management

During the previous 15 years I have worked in QA Area which includes database, API, Performance & Automation in different domains like Banking, Retails and clients like Nordea, FISKARS & NESTE.

Why did you want to join Infrakit?

Joining Infrakit felt like a unique opportunity to be a part of an energetic team. It is always motivating to work with new technologies like Cloud platforms, Api, mobile in infra domain.

What are you looking forward to the most in the future?

Adding Quality Assurance as a service to Infrakit products both front-end and back-end services so that our customer experience will be always good irrespective of our service zone.

What do you enjoy outside of office hours?

During my free time I enjoy Badminton, Cricket and travelling to different cities around the world. Now a days I enjoy parenting and spend many hours in Hoplop with my 3-year-old son.

Employee introduction: Srikanth Yarlagadda Quality Assurance Lead

My name is Srikanth Yarlagadda, have joined Infrakit Group Oy as a Quality Assurance Lead in Finland.

I have around 17 years of experience in software quality. I have done Bachelor of Engineering in IT from India. I started working with Nokia MeeGo products in 2005 and I am proud we delivered one of the best Linux-based based phones (N900 and others from the same family).

There I was working as the functional quality coordinator MeeGo devices. Then I started working with Intel as a UX performance specialist for chipsets. The job was to make sure that they keep the UX performance of the device using Intel chips sets.

Then I worked for my own startup where my job was to do marketing, collect the requirements, handle the development team, and keep up the quality of the product.

I am excited to work and contribute to the next-generation solution for the infra industry which is provided by Infrakit.

My hobbies are driving, reading books, and listening to music. Lately, I have been reading “Tinker Dabble Doodle Try.”

Employee introduction: Jere Syrjälä Master Thesis Worker

In other words, my thesis work should provide you with more knowledge on how you could reach the sustainability objectives by applying Infrakit. If you are a representative of an infra-owner organization, you can showcase how your organization is pursuing sustainable development objectives with the help of digitalization. If you are a contractor, you can win more contracts by meeting the increasing sustainability demands of owners with the use of Infrakit. And if you have nothing to do with this, my thesis will still help you understand in a better way, how digitalization enables building new infrastructure, that is not shi*ting where your grandchildren are supposed to eat in the future, but rather providing them a better and more sustainable future.

After completing my thesis work, I will be a Master of Science from the University of Vaasa, majoring in Industrial Systems Analytics. My prior work history is related to hands-on business development in renewable solutions for the energy industry and building a gig-economy startup as an entrepreneur. So, a sustainable future has kinda always been at the center of my interest in building knowledge and learning consciously or sometimes even unconsciously.

I could describe myself as a multi-passioned builder persona, who practices calisthenics, listens to e-books and practices inventing new nicknames for my cat daily. I am super excited and honored to be here for you!