Aleksi Huotala
Software Developer at Reaktor
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksi Huotala is a software developer and doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki with 10 years of experience blending full-stack engineering and DevOps across public sector, telecoms, IoT, and industrial domains. His PhD investigates automating systematic reviews using large language models, aiming to make empirical software engineering reviews faster and more reproducible. At Reaktor he ships production systems using TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS, Docker, Python, Scala, and Java, and practices agile workflows like Kanban and Scrum. He brings a rare combination of hands-on production experience and academic rigor in generative AI, bridging research prototypes and scalable deployments. Based in Finland, Aleksi has a track record of moving from early IT support roles to complex cloud and ML systems, reflecting deep curiosity and practical engineering discipline. Notably, his research directly targets tooling that could meaningfully speed up how software engineering evidence is synthesized and used.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Finnish matriculation examination, Finnish matriculation examination at Kaurialan lukioDoctor of Philosophy - Ph.D. (Computer science), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D. (Computer science), Artificial Intelligence at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (115)
testing10
authentication10
browser-detection10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
java10
compatibility10
unobtrusive10
facebook10
aws10
javascript9
react-component9
browser9
docker9
cloud-development-kit9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alehuo/wepaS2016projekti
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:111 PRs, 292 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
javascript
alehuo/react-playing-cards
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
React playing card components
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
react
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