Esa-Matti Suuronen
Lead Developer
I am the Lead Developer of Valu Digital and work as the technical architect and principal designer of Headup. In addition to Headup, I held a similar role in the product development of Valu Search and in Valu’s internal WP hosting projects.
In Headup customer projects, I mainly work as an internal consultant by helping project developers to use Headup in the best possible manner. This way, I also receive important feedback from other developers, which helps develop Headup in the right direction as a development tool.
I have worked in the ICT sector in different positions for over ten years. My expertise is also based on my interest in the field, which dates back to my teenage years. I still participate actively in the development of several open source projects in my leisure time. My open source projects can be found in my Github profile.
Mikko Virenius
CTO
I work as the Chief Technology Officer at Valu Digital Oy and am responsible for the technologies used and for the coordination of product development activities.
My work includes the design of technical solutions, producing descriptions of the technical solutions offered, and supervising the implementations where required.
I have worked with WordPress since 2008. I have participated in the development of Headup mainly in the role of a WordPress expert.
Kari Turunen / Founder of Valu Digital
The idea of Headup was triggered by losses
In large WP projects, customer often has precise requirements related to information security and reliability. A traditional WordPress implementation cannot cater for these requirements.
We at Valu Digital know WordPress through and through and are very particular when it comes to information security matters. Despite this, we lost some projects to which we would have had plenty to offer.
We decided to combine the benefits related to the familiarity and ease of use of WordPress with uncompromised information security, speed, and reliability of the website.
Thousands of product development hours produced Headup that enabled us to achieve our goal. We believe that the end result serves the administrators, developers, and end users alike. The website is maintained in a familiar manner also as regards the preview, in addition to which the website is extremely fast to use, the level of information security is extremely high, and the website will not crash even during visitor peaks. The achieved benefits are absolutely worth the thousands of hours it took to develop the system. We hope that the benefits will reach our customers also through other operators in the field.