Summary
Esa Aaltonen is a Front-end Developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building interactive web interfaces and utilities, currently focused on React.js and TypeScript at StellarQ oy. He combines modern UI tooling (Material UI, styled-components) with pragmatic back-end scripting in Node, and has maintained legacy projects using CoffeeScript, jQuery and Jade. Earlier work as a research assistant for Turku University Hospital gave him practical experience delivering browser-based case report forms using PHP, MySQL and vanilla JavaScript across many short-term projects. Esa holds an MSc in Information Technology from the University of Turku and a BEng from Turku University of Applied Sciences, grounding his front-end expertise in solid academic training. He’s comfortable navigating both new-stack development and incremental modernization of older codebases, making him effective in teams that balance rapid feature delivery with maintenance. Colleagues know him as a steady contributor who pairs attention to UI detail with useful back-end automation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Tech), Information Technology, Master of Science (Tech), Information Technology at Turun yliopisto
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Technology at Turku University of Applied Sciences
English, Finnish