Founder Profile
Tuomas Artman
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Tuomas Artman?
Tuomas Artman is a founder of Linear, which was founded in 2019 with Karri Saarinen and Jori Lallo.
- Company founded
- Linear
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Karri Saarinen and Jori Lallo
Background
Former Uber engineering manager and iOS architect.
Founding Story
Tuomas Artman co-founded Linear in 2019. Drawing on his massive experience optimizing the mobile architecture at Uber, he architected Linear's incredibly fast, C++ based sync engine. He specifically ensured the application felt instantaneous by aggressively pre-loading data locally on the user's machine, completely bypassing the massive loading times of legacy web apps. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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