Juha Makkonen
Sports Facilities Caretaker at Siilinjärven kunta - Municipality of Siilinjärvi
Siilinjärvi, North Savo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJuha Makkonen is a community-focused leader with nine years of experience blending civic engagement, content strategy and product-minded project management. Currently a sports facilities caretaker for the Municipality of Siilinjärvi, he previously built and ran Kuopio’s internationally oriented social media presence that was praised as Finland’s best city profile on national TV. He has founded high-impact grassroots projects—most notably a nationwide Finnish Cup football portal mobilizing 253 contributors—and helped shape a five-year content strategy for the global Wikimedia movement. His background spans local politics, student governance and a US-based SaaS startup, giving him a rare mix of public-sector pragmatism and startup product instincts. Known for collaborative content development and scaling volunteer participation, he also has experience in UX, service design and community monetization initiatives. Practical, networked and strategic, he specializes in turning volunteer energy and municipal resources into sustainable public-facing services.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Helsinki School of EconomicsSulkavan lukioUniversity of HelsinkiBBA, Management communication, BBA, Management communication at Savonia University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (5)
azerothcore10
csharp10
character-sheet10
vtt10
foundry1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jamakkon/roll20-character-sheets
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Character sheet templates created by the community for use in Roll20.
Contributions:4 PRs, 50 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 2 months
templateroll20sheetcharactercharacter-sheet
jamakkon/untracked_perceptron
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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