What we do

Senior consultation from architecture to production

Five focused service areas — anchored by IT consultation, the discipline that ties them all together. We can plug into a strategic discussion or a Friday-night incident with equal calm.

IT consultation & solution architecture

This is the core of Salmela Solutions. Twenty-six years of CTO, solution-architect, and team-lead experience across startups, scale-ups, and enterprise programs — available as advisory, fractional CTO, or hands-on engagement.

  • Solution & system architecture for new platforms and rescue projects
  • Fractional CTO and technical board-advisor roles
  • Architecture reviews, due diligence, and tech-stack selection
  • Project management and outsourced-team coordination
  • Compliance-aware architecture (NIST CSF, NIS2, DORA, PED) where the project calls for it

Master Data Management with Tibco EBX®

EBX is our deepest specialty. We have delivered MDM programs for manufacturing, heavy industry, lock & security manufacturing, materials handling, banking, insurance, public-sector health, and food production. Names withheld; expertise tested.

  • Full-cycle EBX implementation, including data-model design
  • Major-version migrations from EBX 5 to 6, including the related Java add-on rewrites
  • Custom Java add-ons for workflow, validation, and integration
  • DevOps automation: scripted upgrades, add-on deployment, environment provisioning
  • Long-term advisory and low-utilization retainers for MDM platforms

Security-critical & regulated systems

For workloads that carry compliance weight — industrial documentation, financial audit, regulated traceability — we design architectures that hold up under inspection.

  • CQRS-based platforms with tamper-evident audit trails
  • Immutable data layers with cryptographic verification
  • Hands-on experience across many blockchain platforms — Stellar, Algorand, Hedera, XDC, Polygon, Celo, Harmony, Tron, XRP-L, Celestia and more
  • Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for long-term integrity and non-repudiation
  • Compliance-aware design that adapts to your NIS2, DORA, PED, or sector-specific obligations where applicable

Frontend craft & brand video

Backends are not the whole picture. Our team includes a frontend designer–developer who works in Figma and a Vite + Vue + JavaScript stack, plus an in-house creator who produces marketing and explainer videos for products, campaigns, and conference talks.

  • Figma-driven product and marketing UI design
  • Vite + Vue 3 + JavaScript / TypeScript frontends
  • Brand and explainer video production for products and conferences

Backend engineering, databases & DevOps

The everyday work of running a serious system. We are senior-level on the unglamorous parts: database design, deployments that reproduce, logs you can read at 2 a.m.

  • Backend services in Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio), Perl (Dancer2, Mojolicious), and Java
  • CQRS and event-sourced architectures where audit trails or read-write asymmetry justify them
  • Relational design with PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, DuckDB; NoSQL with ArangoDB, Redis
  • RFID/NFC integrations and serial-input device work — Raspberry Pi, scanners, weighing scales
  • Linux/Unix administration across Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, FreeBSD, Solaris
  • CI/CD, containerization with Docker, automation with Salt and (R)?ex

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