Henri Ylikotila
Software Engineer at Helsingin Yliopisto
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolHenri Ylikotila is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and full-stack solutions across telecommunications, e-commerce, open data and library domains. Educated at the University of Helsinki (M.Sc.), he is fluent in multiple stacks including JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Python, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB/Postgres and Redis, and has substantial hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. He helped design and operate linked open data infrastructure (Finto/Skosmos) at the National Library of Finland, blending performance-oriented engineering with production reliability. More recently he has focused on microservice backends and GraphQL-powered APIs for React frontends in consultancy roles, often shipping search-optimized systems. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, cross-stack problem solving and for translating research-grade linked data prototypes into resilient, widely used services.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Finnish, Swedish, German
Github Skills (12)
vocabulary10
rdf10
thesaurus10
php10
skos10
sparql10
browser10
controlled10
easyrdf6
linked-data5
php-library5
owl1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
henriyli/Skosmos
May 2019 - Dec 2021
Thesaurus and controlled vocabulary browser using SKOS and SPARQL
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
controlledbrowsersparqlskoscontrolled-vocabulary
henriyli/pidash2
May 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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