Project leadership, technical training, and AI-assisted development.

Skillege Oy is a Finnish consultancy built on 25+ years of IT experience — spanning international project & program management, agile leadership, technical training, and hands-on software development.

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What Skillege does

Project management & product ownership

Scrum Master and product-owner work on international, multisite projects. Experience across telecom, agriculture, e-commerce, and public-sector organizations — keeping delivery on track when the project spans several teams, timezones, or vendors.

Training, coaching & facilitation

Hands-on technical training for teams and companies: AI-assisted development tools, Scrum & product ownership, Git/GitHub, Java OOP, functional programming, and collaboration tooling like Confluence and Jira. Built and ran two online programming-course platforms over 15+ years.

AI-assisted software development

Full-stack web development built with AI coding tools as a core part of the workflow, not a gimmick bolted on afterward — for teams who want to ship a real product fast without giving up code quality. Grounded in a real, hands-on engineering background stretching back to 2001, including embedded systems work for the telecom industry.

Areas of expertise

Four disciplines that run through 25+ years of project history — each backed by real, delivered work, not a checklist of buzzwords.

Project & program management

8+ years of dedicated project and program leadership, following an earlier career in software development — international, multisite work spanning telecommunications, agricultural equipment, e-commerce, and public-sector programs, coordinating teams and stakeholders based across Finland, the USA, Germany, and India.

  • Led safety-critical implementation projects in the agricultural-equipment industry, including full functional-safety documentation aligned with ISO 25119
  • Acted as systems architect and project manager on a multivendor e-commerce platform, delivering strong customer identification and instant-payout processing that met Finnish and EU financial-regulation requirements
  • Managed international documentation teams for telecom hardware programs, redesigning the user-guide production process for better quality and speed
  • Planned and delivered national-level public-sector software prototypes, balancing the differing interests of schools, institutions, and companies as stakeholders
  • Comfortable owning the full delivery chain — timelines, resourcing, risk, vendor coordination, and compliance documentation — not just status reporting

Agile leadership & product ownership

20+ years working with Scrum, in Scrum Master and Product Owner roles across telecom, agriculture, forestry, and public-sector organizations — including hands-on "coding Scrum Master" work where agile facilitation runs alongside real development.

  • Served as Scrum Master while writing production C++ for real-time, safety-critical embedded systems — agile process expertise grounded in actually shipping code, not just facilitating ceremonies
  • Substituted as Product Owner when needed, including planning a full quarter's backlog for a forest-machine-industry team
  • Introduced structured Scrum and agile thinking into large, traditionally-run programs, helping teams move away from rigid, document-heavy ways of working
  • Designed a new employee-mentoring process to help newcomers ramp up on both the codebase and the team's agile process
  • Fluent across the full agile toolchain — Jira, Confluence, Git/GitHub — in multisite, multi-timezone team setups

Training, coaching & facilitation

15+ years delivering technical training — from short corporate workshops to building and running two online programming-course platforms from scratch.

  • Founded and ran an online programming-course platform that became, at its peak, the largest IT course service in Finland, serving thousands of students
  • Designed and delivered a six-month, two-region IT labor-market training program — the first large-scale online labor-market training of its kind in Finland — owning marketing, candidate selection, budgeting, and every training session
  • Delivered Finland's first fully-online IT career-coaching program
  • Led a full enterprise tool-migration and training rollout covering tens of thousands of files, training project staff onto new collaboration tools with zero data loss
  • Regularly delivers short, focused 1–3 day corporate training sessions on current topics — AI coding assistants, Scrum for product owners, modern C++, Git/GitHub, and functional programming

Software development

A hands-on developer since 2001, across several distinct eras of his career — from safety-critical embedded C++ to modern, AI-assisted full-stack web development — with a track record of shipping real, live products end to end.

  • Deep embedded background: real-time C++ on Linux for mobile network base-station software, including work on one of the smallest 4G base stations ever built, under strict memory constraints
  • Long history with mobile platforms (Symbian/S60) and backend identity systems (IAM/OAuth2 in Scala)
  • Owns AI-assisted products end-to-end — data modeling, API design, frontend, deployment, and ongoing maintenance — working with AI coding tools as a genuine part of the workflow, not a gimmick
  • Shipped and maintains multiple live products, including a from-scratch e-learning platform with real (non-simulated) code-execution sandboxes, a full Stripe commercial layer with EU VAT handling, and an admin back office; a white-label booking SaaS live in four languages; and a civic issue-reporting platform with secure authentication, multi-source geospatial routing, and full audit logging
  • The same technical foundation that now anchors Skillege's 3+ years of AI-assisted development work (since 2023) — proven on real products with real users, not a demo

Selected client experience

A selection of organizations Kai has delivered project management, agile leadership, or technical training work for over the course of his career. Logos shown for identification purposes only.

Nokia
Ericsson
AMD
Bittium
AGCO
Ponsse
Qvantel
Opetushallitus — Finnish National Agency for Education
SOK — S-Group

About

Skillege Oy is built on more than 25 years of IT experience: as an embedded software engineer building mobile and telecom base-station software, as a project manager and Scrum Master delivering multisite projects for international organizations, and as a trainer running technical courses and coaching sessions for companies and individual learners alike. Bridging technical and managerial perspectives is the throughline — it's what lets Skillege accelerate collaboration between developers, product owners, and business stakeholders, rather than just managing the gap between them.

That same technical foundation now underpins Skillege's AI-assisted development work: full-stack products built end-to-end with modern AI coding tools, including Ubookly, a white-label booking SaaS with Stripe billing and multi-language support, and MyCoffeeLogger, a Stripe-subscription progressive web app — plus custom platform work for client organizations.

Founded and run by Kai Kaltiola, based in Kajaani, Finland.

See it in action

Live products built and run with the same AI-assisted development approach offered to clients — not demos, real software with real users and real Stripe billing.

Ohjelmointikoulutus.fi

A from-scratch e-learning platform: 14 self-authored programming courses, 260+ lessons in Finnish and English, with real — not simulated — code-execution sandboxes so every example is genuinely run and verified. Full commercial layer included: Stripe checkout with EU VAT handling, certificates of completion, and an admin back office.

Ubookly

A white-label appointment booking SaaS for service businesses — personal trainers, therapists, salons, and more. Public booking pages, Stripe payments with credit packages and passes, group events with waitlists, Google Calendar sync, and multi-staff support, live in Finnish, English, Swedish, and German.

MyCoffeeLogger

A progressive web app for tracking coffee and caffeine intake, with photo-based logging, GPS café discovery and ratings, a friends activity feed, and offline support with automatic sync. Free to use, with a paid subscription tier for advanced analytics and CSV export.

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info@skillege.com

Skillege Oy · Y-tunnus 2316133-3 · Linnanpolku 7, 87200 Kajaani, Finland