Summary
Esa Parkkila is a Finnish software engineer and senior lecturer with 11 years of experience specializing in web development, DevOps, and open source tooling. He is proficient with React.js, GraphQL, Docker, and Linux, and brings practical sysadmin experience managing routers, switches, and servers. At Tampere University of Applied Sciences he progressed from trainee and laboratory engineer roles to his current senior lecturer position, blending hands-on teaching with operational expertise. Esa’s background in front-end work (HTML/CSS/JS) and infrastructure gives him a rare full-stack-to-devops perspective that benefits both students and projects. Based in Tampere, he favors pragmatic, reproducible solutions and contributes to campus tech environments and tooling. Colleagues describe him as technically curious and reliable, comfortable moving between code, networks, and classroom instruction.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Finnish, English, Japanese