Jaakko Santala
Principal Software Engineer at Skyfora
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJaakko Santala is a Principal Software Engineer and freelance consultant from Helsinki with 13+ years of professional experience and over two decades of hands-on programming that span assembly to modern languages. He combines pragmatic technical leadership and architecture skills with executional delivery—working as architect, tech lead or hands-on developer to drive large-scale systems, cloud infrastructure and full-stack web projects. Comfortable across AWS/Azure, containers, CI/CD and ML stacks, he’s delivered both enterprise and startup solutions and offers a money-back quality guarantee to clients. A lifelong hobbyist programmer who still codes from the trenches, he particularly enjoys novel technical problems, functional programming and machine learning work, and is open to leadership roles with equity. An ability to shift between macro strategic direction and micro-level code craftsmanship is a distinctive strength that helps teams become more effective over time.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Finnish
Github Skills (31)
gatsby-plugin5
deploying4
yeoman4
phonegap4
api4
aws4
gatsbyjs4
serverless3
react3
terraform-module3
nextjs3
javascript3
scaffolding3
google-analytics3
yeoman-generator3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hypermurea/hedykapri.fi
Mar 2021 - Nov 2023
SPA website
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
hypermurea/generator-phonegap
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 4 months
scaffoldingyeomanyeoman-generatorgeneratortypescript
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