Eetu Häivälä
Lead Software Developer at Helen
Turku, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolEetu Häivälä is a Lead Software Developer based in Turku, Finland, with 11 years of experience building backend-focused web applications and services. He specializes in Python, Django, and Django REST Framework, and has progressed from trainee roles to leadership at Helen after a strong stint at Vincit and Anders Innovations. Eetu contributes to open-source e-commerce tooling—adding order-processing and admin features to the Shuup platform—showing attention to real-world transactional edge cases like zero-price payments. He combines pragmatic backend engineering with a curiosity for new technologies and methods, often bridging fullstack needs when projects demand it. His background in IT business administration and vocational telecoms gives him a practical, systems-oriented perspective on building maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Vocational degree Telecommunications and electronics, Vocational degree Telecommunications and electronics at Raision AmmattiopistoGraduate (Finnish English Physics and Mathematics), Graduate (Finnish English Physics and Mathematics) at Raision LukioBachelor’s Degree Business Administration in Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration in Information Technology at Turku University of Applied Sciences
Finnish, English
Github Skills (5)
python10
ecommerce10
django10
testing9
postgresql5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shuup/shuup
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
E-Commerce Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Eetu contributed to the core functionality and administrative features of the e-commerce platform. They implemented a function to handle zero-price payments in the order processing logic. They also added a new base class for toolbar items that use POST requests and added a specific item to set zero-price orders as fully paid within the admin interface. Further contributions include updates to the admin modules and test suite.
ecommerce-shopping-solutioncommerce-platformpythonecommercecommerce
ehaivala/digihel
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:66 pushes, 21 branches in 7 months
cmswagtail-cmsdjangowagtailhelsinki
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