---
type: team-member
slug: lauri-junkkari
name: Lauri Junkkari
title: 'Founder, GenAI Engineer'
founder: true
bio: >-
  Lauri is a founding engineer at Intentface. He builds the core of our agentic
  implementations — model routing, tool use, custom retrieval pipelines — and
  partners closely with clients on the path from prototype to production.
  Background in full-stack engineering and applied machine learning.
expertise:
  - Agentic systems
  - Tool use
  - Full-stack engineering
  - Applied ML
portrait: /team/lauri-junkkari.jpg
portraitAlt: Portrait of Lauri Junkkari
social:
  linkedin: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurijunkkari/'
order: 7
---