Jarno Virta
Senior Developer at WithSecure
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJarno Virta is a senior developer based in Helsinki who transitioned from a 15-year career as a government lawyer into software engineering, now contributing to WithSecure’s detection and response backend. With eleven years of technical experience and an ongoing MSc in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, he blends domain-driven thinking and rigorous legal reasoning into cloud-native DevOps and backend architecture work. He has deep hands-on experience with Java, Node.js and AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFormation) and played a key role in planning the IAM service demerger between F-Secure and WithSecure. Jarno’s background in EU and international law gives him a rare strength in tackling compliance and cross-border system requirements, making him effective at designing secure, auditable systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turned a longtime hobby into a deliberate, technically disciplined second career.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Laws, General; EU Law, Master of Laws, General; EU Law at University of Lapland, Rovaniemi FinlandMaîtrise, EU and International Law, Maîtrise, EU and International Law at Université Toulouse 1 CapitoleDEA, EU Law, DEA, EU Law at University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonneMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
French, English, Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
aws-lambda6
maven6
jpa6
nodejs6
javascript6
uri6
esbuild6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jarnovirta/AndroidPractiScoreUploader
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
jarnovirta/Korjaamotestiraportointi
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:179 pushes, 19 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
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