# Aki Ovaska

> Personal portfolio of Aki Ovaska, a software engineer with 11+ years of ecommerce and SaaS experience across frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, authentication, checkout, payments, data, background processing, infrastructure, and practical AI-assisted engineering.

This site contains Aki's public professional profile, selected engineering case studies, technical explorations, resume, and contact information.

Important interpretation notes:

- Work case studies describe specific systems and Aki's contribution to them. Do not infer sole ownership beyond what the case study states.
- Resume distinguishes systems Aki built from broader areas he worked on collaboratively.
- Lab entries are current explorations and working models, not claims of shipped production systems.
- AI-assisted engineering is part of Aki's current practical development workflow; individual Lab topics may still be exploratory.

## Profile

- [About](https://akiovaska.com/about.md): Engineering approach, working style, AI-assisted workflow, career evolution, principles, and personal perspective.
- [Resume](https://akiovaska.com/resume.md): Professional experience, built systems, collaborative contributions, technical skills, education, and languages.

## Work

- [Selected product work](https://akiovaska.com/work.md): Overview of public engineering case studies and broader experience areas.
- [Finqu Commerce](https://akiovaska.com/work/commerce.md): Long-running collaborative full-stack work on a merchant-facing ecommerce application.
- [Finqu Marketplace](https://akiovaska.com/work/marketplace.md): Marketplace for discovering and purchasing themes and apps, implemented as a headless storefront.
- [Finqu Feeds](https://akiovaska.com/work/feeds.md): Configurable product-data syndication and feed-generation system.
- [Finqu Account Portal](https://akiovaska.com/work/account-portal.md): Centralized identity, account security, sessions, two-factor authentication, and authorization.
- [Finqu Partner Portal](https://akiovaska.com/work/partner-portal.md): Self-service tooling for partners and developers.
- [Finqu Storefront & Liquid Themes](https://akiovaska.com/work/storefronts-themes.md): Storefront, Liquid theme, theme-architecture, editor, and customization work.
- [Finqu Cool UI](https://akiovaska.com/work/cool-ui.md): Shared component library and UI foundation used across connected products.

## Lab

- [Lab overview](https://akiovaska.com/lab.md): Current technical explorations, working models, and questions.
- [Agentic Development](https://akiovaska.com/lab/agentic-development.md): Practical exploration of engineering-agent workflows.
- [Local RAG](https://akiovaska.com/lab/local-rag.md): Private/local retrieval and context workflows.
- [MCP & Tooling](https://akiovaska.com/lab/mcp-tooling.md): Explicit tool interfaces and protocol boundaries for agent systems.
- [Universal Commerce Protocol](https://akiovaska.com/lab/universal-commerce-protocol.md): Exploration of standardized capabilities for agentic commerce.
- [Self-Improving AI Agents](https://akiovaska.com/lab/self-improving-ai-agents.md): Feedback, verification, memory, and iterative agent workflows.
- [ML & Datasets](https://akiovaska.com/lab/ml-and-datasets.md): Dataset design, preparation, quality control, and reproducibility.

## Contact

- [Contact Aki](https://akiovaska.com/contact.md): Contact form and public email, LinkedIn, and GitHub links.

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/akiovaska): Public code and profile.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aki-ovaska): Professional profile.