---
type: team-member
slug: valtteri-karesto
name: Valtteri Karesto
title: 'CTO, Founder'
founder: true
bio: >-
  Valtteri leads engineering at Intentface. He works on the systems side of
  agentic products — orchestration, retrieval, evals — and writes the bulk of
  the technical articles on intentface.com. Before Intentface he spent a decade
  shipping data and ML infrastructure in startups.
expertise:
  - Agentic systems
  - LLM evaluation
  - Retrieval
  - Distributed systems
portrait: /team/valtteri-karesto.jpg
portraitAlt: Portrait of Valtteri Karesto
social:
  linkedin: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/valtterikaresto/'
  twitter: 'https://www.x.com/valtterikaresto'
order: 1
---