Casimir Laine
The Head Of Backend Development at Choicely
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolCasimir Laine is a pragmatic engineering leader with 8 years of experience building cloud-native backends, Android apps, and resilient DevOps pipelines from Helsinki. As Head of Backend Development at Choicely he architects scalable microservices, owns security and reliability, and mentors teams to ship high-impact features under tight deadlines. He transitioned from Android to backend and DevOps quickly, demonstrating an unusual ability to learn new domains on the job and turn a monolith into a performant, serverless architecture. Comfortable across Python, Docker, CI/CD and cloud operations, he’s proven at scaling systems for global events and optimizing performance under peak load. A disciplined, detail-oriented problem solver with reserve officer leadership training, he blends technical depth with people-first management. Currently pursuing advanced studies in data science and strategy, he brings both academic rigor and hands-on delivery to complex platform challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Strategy and Organisational Design, Master of Science - MS, Strategy and Organisational Design at Aalto UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
lz778
compression6
python5
gift2
javascript1
react1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CasimirLaine/tetris-swing
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 31 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 9 months
CasimirLaine/data-compressor-python
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Python implementation of the Lempel-Ziv and Huffman compression algorithms
Contributions:1 release, 88 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
huffman-compression-algorithmpythondecompressioncompressionlz77
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