Antti Hukkanen
CEO, Founder at Mainio Tech
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolAntti Hukkanen is a Helsinki-based software founder and CEO with 14 years of hands-on experience building web platforms and products from the database up. He leads Mainio Tech and previously ran consulting and product ventures, blending full-stack engineering fluency (PHP, Java, Ruby) with product-minded entrepreneurship. Antti contributes to notable open-source projects—improving internationalization in Concrete CMS and adding Geoapify/Photon support to the popular geocoder Ruby gem—demonstrating attention to locale-sensitive backend robustness and API integrations. His background includes building complex, production-grade systems (a dating site with ~100 tables and multiple payment integrations) and shipping bug fixes across large Rails projects like Decidim. With dual technical and business studies at Aalto and HSE, he pairs rigorous engineering craft with commercial pragmatism and a knack for making hidden localization and integration issues disappear.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Academic Entrepreneurship Module, Minor studies for Bachelor's, Academic Entrepreneurship Module, Minor studies for Bachelor's at Helsingin kauppakorkeakouluM.Sc (Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc (Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanMaster's, Sales Studies, Master's, Sales Studies at Helsingin kauppakorkeakoulu / Helsinki School of Economics
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Github Skills (30)
content-management-system10
cms10
debug10
internationalization10
zend-framework10
rails10
ruby10
php10
localization10
geocoding10
google-geocoding-api10
i18next10
localized10
ruby-on-rails10
cm10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
decidim/decidim
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1705 reviews, 613 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Antti was involved in enhancing the Decidim platform by addressing various bug fixes and feature implementations. Their work primarily centered around improving the functionality of the application and its components, including the addition of dependencies, preventing CSS prefixes in the dummy app, fixing issues related to Internet Explorer 11, and fixing address toggle functionality. Their contributions were aimed at improving the overall user experience and stability of the platform.
participatory-democracycivic-techgovernmentdemocracyparticipation
concretecms/concretecms
Jul 2012 - Jun 2021
Official repository for Concrete CMS development
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 145 commits, 67 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Antti primarily focused on improving internationalization and localization within the Concrete CMS project. Their contributions included configuring and making various features configurable, such as sanitizable characters and Zend_Translate options. They addressed database string issues related to different locales and fixed problems within block installation and updating. Additionally, the user updated SimplePie to version 1.3.
cmsconcretephpframeworkconcrete5
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