Aurora Lahtela
Software Developer at Cinia
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolAurora Lahtela is a software developer based in Helsinki with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining microservice-based systems, full-stack web apps, and developer tooling. With a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, she blends strong engineering discipline—clean code, CI/CD, testing and containerization—with practical experience in AWS, Java/Spring, Python, and modern frontend stacks. She has a track record of improving codebases and team processes, from migrating builds to Webpack to upgrading Java and JUnit versions to reduce technical debt. An active open-source contributor, she strengthened backend reliability and test coverage for popular Minecraft plugins, demonstrating a knack for refactoring and maintainability. Colleagues describe her as attentive and collaborative—she proactively reduces others’ friction, writes clear reviews, and brings thoughtful suggestions to improve team wellbeing as well as software quality.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
sqlite10
database-testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
concurrency10
sql9
performance-optimization9
database-design9
mockito9
spigot8
apidoc8
bukkit8
api8
plugin7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
plan-player-analytics/Plan
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Player Analytics plugin for Minecraft Server platforms - View player activity of your server with ease. :calendar:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:222 releases, 208 reviews, 5369 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aurora primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the Plan project's backend functionality. Their contributions involved refactoring file deletion checks within the JSONFileStorage class, reworking the UnitSemaphoreAccessLock to improve concurrency, and caching and refreshing player tables. Additionally, they made key architectural improvements by moving to UUIDs and adding the use of a join_address to the API's data.
bungeecord-plugindata-collectionplayerstatisticsnukkit-plugin
PyvesB/advanced-achievements
Dec 2017 - Jan 2019
:fireworks: Popular plugin that adds unique and challenging achievements to Minecraft servers.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 101 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Aurora primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Minecraft plugin by adding comprehensive JUnit tests for the SQLite database integration. The contributions involved creating and integrating test suites to ensure database operations are robust and reliable, covering initialization, achievement management, and connection tracking. The user also performed refactoring, cleaned up project code, and refactored language file handling, improving maintainability and overall project quality.
minecraftbukkit-pluginchallengingbukkitplugin
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