Jarno Elovirta is a seasoned software developer with 17 years of experience building full-stack systems, currently consulting at Wunderdog from Helsinki and focusing on Java Spring Boot backends, TypeScript React front-ends, and AWS-hosted Lambdas. He brings deep expertise in structured document processing and publishing—maintaining and contributing to the widely used DITA Open Toolkit—alongside hands-on work in Scala and functional, strongly typed languages. Comfortable across back-end, batch and front-end async UX challenges, he gravitates toward pragmatic functional design and is actively exploring Rust and Go to broaden his toolset. An open-source maintainer and creator of DITA Generator, he combines professional consulting with sustained OSS stewardship driven by a commitment to ethical values and community impact.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Printing Technology, BS, Printing Technology at Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
DITA Open Toolkit — the open-source publishing engine for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:16 releases, 310 reviews, 4438 commits in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jarno primarily worked on back-end improvements and features for DITA-OT. They were involved in modifying and extending core functionalities such as improving the registry PR generation, fixing the registry update script and adding features for the project like project support in the CLI. The user also made changes to the project class and implemented elements related to output and context.
OASIS DITA TC: Official TC repository for source files developed and maintained in specializations edited by the DITA Technical Communication Subcommittee
Contributions:543 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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Jarno Elovirta - Software Developer at Wunderdog Oy