About
A software company in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Custom software, our own SaaS products and technical advisory, from Finnish Lapland.
Codeva Oy is a software company in Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland. We build custom web applications for clients, develop and run our own SaaS products such as Tuntivo, and advise companies on technology as a fractional CTO.
We work remotely with clients in Finland and across Europe, in short iterations, and we stay on after launch to host, maintain and improve what we build.
Behind Codeva
The person behind it
Codeva Oy is led by Mark van der Putten, who has been building software professionally since 2003 and now runs the company from Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland.
The first chapter was Thunderbite B.V. (later renamed Codeva B.V.), a Dutch software house focused on web development, hosting, and custom software for clients across the Netherlands. At its peak the business hosted around 500 client domains and built bespoke applications, including Tess, a complete booking and packaging platform for Scandinavian Wintersports and Scandinavian Summersports.
A second chapter began in 2014, when Mark co-founded a new Thunderbite with two partners, this time aimed at the iGaming industry. Over nine years the team grew to twenty-five people and shipped a Free-to-Play games platform that ran for tier-1 operators including William Hill, Entain, Kindred, Betsson, Caesars, BetMGM, Tipico, and Lottomatica. The platform processed millions of player interactions a day across Europe, North America, and South America. Thunderbite was acquired by Xtremepush in 2023, and Mark stayed on for two more years, leading the Free-to-Play Gamification and Loyalty division.
Early in 2026 he stepped away to focus on Codeva again, full time. The Codeva of today carries all of that with it: custom software, senior technical leadership, and a small handful of SaaS products developed from the edge of the Arctic Circle.
Codeva works fully remote, as Mark has for more than twenty years, with clients in Finland and across Europe.
What you can count on.
However the project is shaped, these stay the same.
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You own the code. Source code, data and hosting accounts are in your name. No lock-in.
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A written estimate first. Before any build work you get the scope and an estimate in writing, so you know what you are buying.
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Working software in weeks. The first useful version is in front of real users within weeks, then a demo every other week.
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We stay after launch. Hosting, monitoring, security updates and new features, or a clean handover to your own team.
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You talk to the person building it. No account managers in between: you work directly with the developer building your software.
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Remote across Europe. From Rovaniemi to clients in Finland and the rest of Europe, in English or Dutch.
Tell us what you are working on.
A short call is usually enough to see whether we can help. No sales pitch.