Elias Kunnas
Software Engineering Consultant at Curiosity Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolElias Kunnas is a Helsinki-based software engineering consultant with 15 years of experience building backend systems and leading development teams, currently at Curiosity Oy. He combines an AI academic background (BSc Hons, University of Edinburgh) with hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source work like curlconverter by improving Python code generation, parsing, and edge-case handling. Elias applies systems-thinking and control-theory-inspired approaches to complex organisational problems, evidenced by his 2026 book proposing structural fixes to Finnish administration. He’s skilled at translating ambiguous requirements into robust, well-escaped, production-ready code and at diagnosing architectural failure modes that masquerade as personnel issues.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours, Artificial Intelligence, BSc Honours, Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh
English, Finnish
Github Skills (7)
curl10
python10
querystring9
api8
apim8
api-design8
javascript7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
curlconverter/curlconverter
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Transpile curl commands into Python, JavaScript and 27 other languages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Elias primarily contributed to the Python code generation aspect of the project, focusing on accurately translating curl commands into functional Python code. Their work involved addressing parsing issues and ensuring the correct handling of various curl command features. The user implemented fixes to properly quote and escape data within the generated Python code, correcting potential errors and improving code quality. They also addressed issues related to URL parameters and query string formatting within the generated code.
pythonparsertextlintmatlabcurl-commands
eliask/finlex-data
Jun 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
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