About

Juha Huotari

I'm Juha Huotari, a solution analyst based in Helsinki. My day job is in insurance data platforms: reporting pipelines, analytics development, and the kind of integration work that has to be correct before it becomes useful. Before that, regulatory reporting in wealth management. The projects here come from the same instinct — that the interesting problems in a system are usually boundary problems, and that making a boundary explicit is almost always worth the cost.

The projects on this site are personal infrastructure and tooling work, but they start from the same instincts. A household operating platform uses bronze, silver, and gold data tiers because that separation works. Sprint tooling enforces schema-level constraints because I have seen what happens when shared state is a document that everyone edits optimistically. A homelab cluster runs through GitOps because the alternative is a system that only the last person who touched it can recover, and for a homelab that's going to be me.

The recurring themes are boundaries that survive iteration, tools kept in the role they are actually good at, and a preference for making the trade-offs visible rather than hiding them behind a clean interface.

Most of the material here starts as iterative prompts, and is followed by ADRs, runbooks, sprint notes, or a fix committed after the problem became expensive enough. The site is where some of that gets compressed into something someone else could read without needing the full repo history.

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