Kalle Hjerppe is a doctoral student in the University of Turku software engineering lab. He has also received his bachelor's and master's degrees from UTU, beginning at the university in 2008. Aside from his studies and research, he has worked in the industry as a software engineer and an architect since 2013. His current position is an ICT-architect in the Hospital district of Southwest Finland and the transformation programme to Wellbeing services counties.

Research interest is in using software engineering and architecture methods to make data protection easier and more effective.