Petteri Kivimäki has been appointed Chief Technology Officer of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) starting from 22nd February 2018. Before joining the NIIS, Petteri has been working as a software architect in a leading global professional services company. Petteri holds a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

During years 2014–2017 Petteri worked at the Population Register Centre of Finland as an information systems manager. He was the technical lead of X-Road implementation project in Finland and was coordinating the joint open source development of the X-Road solution between Finland and Estonia.