I'm a 33-year-old software developer, who enjoys spending time in front of a computer. I live in Hämeenlinna with my lovely wife and two children.
I work as an integration specialist for the National Land Survey of Finland (Maanmittauslaitos). My work consists of observing and resolving anomalies that happen in the integration process flows and developing new integration applications. In addition to this I get to be a SysAdmin managing plenty of servers running our integration platform and DevOps is something that I also get to do quite frequently (Ansible is such a great product).
The best thing about my work is of course my team members and also the variety of the work. Team members have been so helpful as I've learned about the integration platform and they have made it very easy for me to become part of the team.
For pleasure, I like to learn about networking. I've been hooked on the Unifi ecosystem for quite some time now and feels like there is still so much for me to tinker with (sorry family). Last year I've mainly focused on VPN setups (Wireguard server / client, VPN site-to-site, full/split tunneling) as well as VLAN management for segmented and isolated networks.
I've always had a thing for sports even though I've never been too fanatic about any of the sports I've tried. Ice hockey I played for over 10 years, but decided to retire since it started to feel too serious for my taste. After that I got interested about lifting weights at the gym – while studying at Tampere University of Technology I enjoyed going to the gym 4-5 times a week. The gym was right next door and it was open until 23 so especially the "bat shifts" (late night shifts) is when I enjoyed going to the gym. At that time the gym was less crowded so it was a perfect time for a workout for a shy nerd like myself.
I also got interested about badminton while studying at TUT. TUT offered badminton courts that students could reserve for practically free. We took advantage of this benefit for a few years and really enjoyed having intensive games with my friends. However after I graduated from TUT and couldn't use these benefits anymore, both gym and badminton just got faded out of my life.
After moving back to my roots to Hämeenlinna I've been playing floorball twice a week. It's mainly the same group of people that I used to play occasionally when I was at high school over 10 years ago. The youngest ones that have participated have been like under 10-years-old while the oldest ones have been over 60. Nevertheless, the games are always fun and get a good amount of sweat moving. I feel like at the moment floorball gives important balance to my life compared the static work life and other stuff that I enjoy doing on computer.
Tampere University of Technology • 2018
I graduated from Kauriala high school in 2011. After graduating I applied to Tampere University of Technology (aka TUT) to study information technology — at the time I didn't know anything about programming, but I was enthusiastic to learn more about computers. Right away I felt programming to be really interesting and especially web development seemed compelling.
During my bachelor degree my major was software technology and information systems as my minor. I managed to get a job as a software specialist on last year of my bachelor degree in a small company called Tawasta. I did my bachelor's thesis in this company – the thesis was about Odoo's reporting capabilities.
In my master's degree I tried to select courses that were most beneficial for preparing me worklife. These consisted mostly of different kind of projects in small teams with other students. In one of these projects our six-man team won the award for best project (Project Work -course, 2017). My responsibilities in the project was quality assurance, UI and UX and localization. Project was implemented with Django. I did my master's thesis while working in Tawasta. The topic for my thesis was about how helpdesk and support desk services could be implemented in Odoo. I graduated from TUT in summer 2018.
Maanmittauslaitos / National Land Survey of Finland • 2025-Present
Developing integration applications with Mulesoft. RHEL maintenance and monitoring - keeping puny holes away from our systems.
Futural Oy • 2024-2025
Focusing on integrations on Odoo and Magento (mainly REST and SFTP-based), including but not limited to: Koski, eHOKS, ePerusteet, Suomi.fi-tunnistus, Suomi.fi-palveluväylä. Server management (Ubuntu and Debian, Nginx, Let's Encrypt certificates).
Oy Tawasta OS Technologies Ltd • 2015-2024
Customizing open source products such as Magento (eCommerce) and Odoo (ERP) for clients' needs. Server maintenance ensuring 24/7 smooth operations.