Janne Saarela
Founding Partner at Namia
Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland
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Top SchoolJanne Saarela is a founding partner and hands-on developer with 14 years of experience building web solutions from WordPress themes and plugins to Node.js full‑stack work. Based in Seinäjoki, Finland, he blends a Master’s in Economics with a background in media engineering to run and deliver projects at Namia and previously at Digitoimisto Kehittämö. He combines product-minded project management with day-to-day coding, keeping small teams running smoothly while shipping pragmatic, well‑designed interfaces and back‑end services. Janne favors simple, clean design and JavaScript ecosystems, but brings practical flexibility across stacks. Outside of work he channels creativity into music, craft beer, single malt whisky and disc golf—an unusual mix that keeps his thinking both focused and refreshed.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of (Media) Engineering ICT, Bachelor of (Media) Engineering ICT at Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu (University of Applied Sciences)Bachelor International Media and Entertainment Management (exchange student), Bachelor International Media and Entertainment Management (exchange student) at Breda University of Applied SciencesMaster of Science (Economics) Computer Science and Information Technology, Master of Science (Economics) Computer Science and Information Technology at University of Jyväskylä
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (104)
cube10
sql9
rust9
postgresql9
serverless9
snowflake9
semantic9
mysql9
databricks9
aws-lambda9
serverless-framework9
lazy-loading9
viewport9
linux8
lambda8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
0is1/toukoaalto2017
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
WordPress theme for toukoaalto.fi (version 2017)
Contributions:8 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
wordpresscsswordpress-theme
kehittamo/oluttamo-browser-extension
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:64 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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