Tino Kaartovuori

An engineer who builds software, and everything around it.

Web, AI, hardware, and an eye for design. See the work
  • Claude Code
  • Three.js
  • WebGL
  • MCP
  • Nuxt
  • Next.js
  • Phaser
  • AlphaZero
  • Electron
  • STM32
  • Fusion 360
  • 3D printing
  • Home Assistant
  • DaVinci Resolve

Selected work

Things I have designed and built, on screens and off them.

  1. The Aurora Compass logo beside three phone screens showing the overview, the aurora map and the sun

    — Brand, visual design and product direction

    Aurora Compass

    A free aurora and space weather app for iOS and Android, simple for beginners and detailed enough for chasers.

    4.9 out of 5on App Store and Google Play

    Read more about Aurora Compass

  2. The black 3D-printed camera on a wooden table with a cable release attached and a second lens unit beside it

    — Design, engineering and print

    A 3D-printed film camera

    The K5 Arta MkIII, a fully mechanical 35mm film camera with swappable optics, designed in Fusion 360 and printed at home.

    Read more about A 3D-printed film camera

  3. Two outrigger boats in the shallows at sunset, fishermen in hats aboard

    — Camera, edit and grade

    The Philippines, a travel film

    A two-hour travel film of a trip through the Philippines with friends, the diving and the snorkelling above all, cut at home from 800 GB of footage.

    Read more about The Philippines, a travel filmWatch, in Finnish

  4. A pixel-art map of forests, rivers and farms with workers and buildings, and a dark side panel of resources and unit counts

    — Pixel art, port and AI opponents

    Colonizing Pirkanmaa

    A turn-based strategy game from university, ported to the browser with three computer opponents, one of them trained with AlphaZero.

    Read more about Colonizing PirkanmaaPlay

Tino Kaartovuori, smiling, in low evening light

About

I am an engineer in Finland. I build software and hardware, and I rebuild old ways of working with AI and modern tools.

I want to see the whole of a system, find where cause turns into effect, and then find a better way to run it. Usually that means software, from web apps to backends and desktop apps. When it does not, it means whatever the problem needs: an AI solution, an automation or a new API.

What interests me most now is what AI does to a process. A pricing routine that took a person an afternoon, a supplier catalogue keyed into the ERP by hand, a workflow nobody has questioned in ten years: I take these apart and rebuild them with agents, automation and the tools of the moment. I work in the middle of the AI revolution every day, and this site was built with the same things in mind.

I am based in Salo, an hour from both Turku and Helsinki, and take on projects and roles in both cities and across southern Finland, on site or remote.

What I offer

  • Process renewal with AI: old routines rebuilt with agents, automation and modern tools
  • Web apps and software: for web, desktop and mobile, designed and built end to end
  • ERP, data and AI integrations
  • Photography and video
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