Petri Mikael Autio

Product Leader | WASH & International Development Technology

Tampere, Finland & South-East Asia linkedin.com/in/petriautio autio.github.io github.com/Autio

Profile

Product leader with 8+ years heading product for mWater and Solstice, including the world's most widely used free data platform for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Directed design, prioritization, and rollout of 300+ major features serving 390,000+ users across 199 countries and territories. Background in international development (WaterAid), data systems, and team management since 2016. Combines deep WASH sector knowledge with hands-on technical skills to bridge user needs, business requirements, and engineering capacity. mWater's technical architecture and engineering are led by CTO Clayton Grassick.

Experience

Head of Product

Mar 2018 - Present
mWater (mwater.co) & Solstice (solstice.world) | Remote

Product strategy, roadmap ownership, and feature delivery for a free data platform and digital public good used by governments, UNICEF, USAID, Water.org, CRS, and hundreds of NGOs to manage WASH data at national scale.

Systems Advisor - Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting

Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
WaterAid | London

Programme Officer - Analytics & Insight

May 2014 - Sep 2015
WaterAid | London

CRM Services Officer

Feb 2013 - May 2014
WaterAid | London

GIS Developer (Volunteer)

Sep 2012 - Feb 2013
British Red Cross | London
  • Mapping tools with D3.js, PHP, SQL. Python scripting

Operations Analyst

Mar 2011 - Jun 2012
GSA Capital | London
  • Trade reconciliations, treasury automation (VBA), risk management

Education

MSc Development Studies (Merit) - University of Glasgow, 2009-2010
MA (Hons) History & Philosophy (First) - University of Glasgow, 2005-2009

Technical Skills

TypeScript, JavaScript, React, CoffeeScript, Node.js, Python, C#, PostgreSQL, SQL, REST API design, D3.js, Leaflet, MapboxGL, CSS, HTML5, Git, GIS, agentic AI development, local LLMs, prompt engineering, PowerBI, AWS, Docker, Linux, VBA, ETL, data visualization, unit testing.

Key Projects Managed at mWater

CRS Azure (azurewater.org), digital platform for small water utilities. USAID Haiti, platform for all urban utilities in-country. Ethiopia CO-WASH, one of Africa's largest WASH monitoring programs. Uganda RUMIS (rumis.ug), rural and urban water MIS. Malawi national water point database, 120K+ points. Papua New Guinea WASH MIS (umben.mwater.co). USAID IUWASH Tangguh, Indonesia. Water Mission systems integration. UNICEF-LIXIL youth citizen reporter monitoring. Medair Solstice implementation and indicator development. EquityTool integration.

Consulting & Independent Work

Netherlands Red Cross data preparedness program. Water for People Honduras data management. LM International Ethiopia training. Clear Cambodia WASH systems. Conference apps for Colorado WASH Symposium and UNC Water & Health. Personal projects include globally viral philosophy visualizations, a health research blog, and game prototypes (Unity, C#).