Asko Soukka
Software Architect at University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolAsko Soukka is a Software Architect with 16 years of experience designing and maintaining Python and Plone-based web services, currently leading BPMN/DMN process automation and full-stack development at the University of Jyväskylä. He prefers open source collaboration and has a proven ability to understand and modernize large legacy codebases, reflected in contributions to notable projects like the Plone Volto frontend and core CMFPlone testing. His skill set spans backend Python services, HTML5/JS frontends, UX, automated acceptance testing, and CI/CD, often bridging development and DevOps work such as Docker, test automation, and deployment tooling. Asko’s background in cognitive science and user-friendly information systems informs a pragmatic focus on usable, testable interfaces and processes. He brings a community-minded, quality-first approach that quietly strengthens projects by improving test infrastructure and developer workflows.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Cognitive Science, M.Sc. Cognitive Science at University of Jyväskylä
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Github Skills (26)
plone10
selenium10
python10
testing10
selenium-ide10
web-automation10
robotframework10
react10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
pycharm9
webpacker8
webpack8
makefile8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
plone/Products.CMFPlone
Aug 2013 - Aug 2017
The core of the Plone content management system
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:45 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Asko primarily focused on upgrading and maintaining the existing Robot Framework acceptance tests within the Plone CMS core. Their contributions involved migrating tests to use the `plone.app.robotframework` library, updating test cases, and ensuring the correct functionality of various Plone features, including editing, folder contents, action menus, overlays, portlets, and live search. The commits demonstrate an understanding of testing methodologies and the Plone platform, improving the test coverage and maintainability of the project.
content-management-systemplone
plone/volto
Mar 2018 - Jun 2020
React-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 22 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Asko contributed to the project by adding features and tooling related to both frontend and backend aspects, and also to the deployment/testing processes. They added Docker configuration for the API, and implemented a Jupyter Notebook integration for testing. They also refactored the project's acceptance test setup, making Chrome the default browser, and added a root Makefile to ease test execution. Moreover, they fixed an issue related to SSR (Server Side Rendering) and implemented a fix on the ArrayWidget component.
content-management-systemfrontendplonereactvolto
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