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company: TietoEVRY
duration: 2016-2025
tags: [career-history, tieto]
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# TietoEVRY Experience Summary (2016-2025)

## 📅 Timeline Overview
**Total Duration**: ~9 years (2016-2025)
**Departments**: Funds (majority), Equities (final year)

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## 🎯 Major Roles & Responsibilities

### Database Developer (Funds - Early Years)
**Focus**: Implementing features, microservice architecture

**Key Projects**:
- Feature development for TCM/TCM Lite products
- Microservices architecture implementation
- Database design and optimization

**Technologies**: SQL Server, .NET, Azure

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### Senior Developer/Architect (Funds - Mid Years)
**Focus**: REST API layer, architecture transformation

**Key Project: AbasecGateway**
- **Problem**: Legacy AbaSec database needed modern API layer
- **Solution**: Designed and implemented REST API gateway
- **Responsibilities**:
  - Architecture design
  - Cross-cutting concerns (logging, metrics, OpenID auth)
  - CI/CD pipeline creation
  - Full end-to-end deployment pipeline to production

**Technologies**: .NET, REST APIs, Azure DevOps, OpenID Connect

**Duration**: ~2 years

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### ToolSmiths Team (Equities - Final Year)
**Focus**: Version control and build/deploy tools maintenance

**Context**: 
- Moved from Funds to Equities organization
- Team responsible for legacy tooling
- Many original developers had left

**Challenges**:
- Unfamiliar with much of the legacy AbaSec tooling
- Supporting junior colleagues constantly
- Felt increasingly stuck and stressed
- Knowledge drain as experienced people left

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## 🏆 Major Achievements

### AbasecGateway Project
- ✅ Modern REST API layer on legacy system
- ✅ Complete CI/CD pipeline
- ✅ End-to-end testing framework
- ✅ Production deployment system
- ✅ Authentication/authorization implementation
- ✅ Comprehensive logging and metrics

### Architecture & Technical Leadership
- ✅ Clean Architecture transformations
- ✅ Microservices design patterns
- ✅ Azure cloud migrations
- ✅ DevOps practices implementation

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## 📉 Product Context
- **TCM/TCM Lite**: Fund management products in decline
- **Customer attrition**: Multiple customers leaving platform
- **Market pressure**: Changing industry landscape

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## 💭 Reasons for Leaving

### Primary Factors
1. **Role Mismatch**: Move to ToolSmiths felt like step backward
   - More legacy maintenance than innovation
   - Less architectural work
   - Supporting vs leading

2. **Stress & Feeling Stuck**: 
   - Constant support of junior developers
   - Unfamiliar legacy systems
   - Knowledge gaps from departed colleagues

3. **Life Event Catalyst**: 
   - Former Sybase colleague passed away (September)
   - Reflection on career at age 55
   - Desire to try consulting while still able

4. **Product Decline**: 
   - Funds product losing customers
   - Uncertainty about long-term prospects

### Regrets & Reflections
- **Regret**: Didn't communicate stress to manager (Patrik Svensson) sooner
- **Wonder**: Could issues have been resolved with better communication?
- **Recognition**: May have acted hastily due to stress

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## 🎓 Skills Developed
- SQL Server architecture and optimization
- .NET development (various versions)
- REST API design
- Microservices architecture
- Azure cloud services
- CI/CD pipeline design
- DevOps practices
- Team leadership
- Cross-cutting concerns design

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## 🔗 Related
- Projects to document in detail: [[AbasecGateway Project]], [[TCM Microservices]]
- Skills to emphasize: [[SQL Server]], [[.NET]], [[Azure]], [[REST APIs]]
- Interview talking points: [[Why I Left Tieto]]