Jussi Hallila
Head Of Engineering at Roadie
Netherlands
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Top SchoolJussi Hallila is a Head of Engineering based in the Netherlands with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and application platforms. He combines deep JavaScript and JVM expertise—React, Vue, Node.js, Java, Kotlin and Spring—with DevOps automation using Ansible and Linux to streamline delivery and operations. At Roadie he progressed from software developer to engineering lead while contributing backend and full-stack work to the popular Backstage open framework, including S3 integrations, database optimizations and plugin migrations. His background ranges from large-enterprise BI and SOA at IBM to modern CI/CD and monorepo initiatives, showing a consistent focus on developer experience and build engineering. Colleagues know him for pragmatically raising code quality and introducing reproducible infrastructure and test automation across teams. He pairs technical depth with leadership in scaling developer platforms and integrating diverse CI/build systems into cohesive workflows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering at Lapland University of Applied SciencesComputer Science Foreign Exchange Studies Computer Science, Computer Science Foreign Exchange Studies Computer Science at Shanghai UniversityComputer Science Foreign Exchange Studies Information Technology, Computer Science Foreign Exchange Studies Information Technology at Missouri State University
Dutch, Finnish
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Github Skills (20)
cypress10
postgresql10
typescript10
cicd10
backstage10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
nodejs9
react9
monorepo9
aws8
joda-time6
mockito6
junit6
autowire6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RoadieHQ/roadie-backstage-plugins
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
All Backstage plugins created by Roadie.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 812 reviews, 155 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jussi contributed to the development of Backstage plugins, specifically focusing on migrating existing plugins to a monorepo structure. This involved adding mock payloads for data, creating Cypress tests to validate the correct rendering of data, and updating README files. The user's work spanned multiple plugins, including Buildkit and Travis CI, indicating a focus on integrating various build and CI/CD systems within the Backstage platform.
backstagebackstage-pluginpluginroadie
backstage/backstage
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:195 reviews, 118 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jussi primarily contributes to the Backstage backend, focusing on enhancements and maintenance. Their work includes modifying AWS S3 integration, introducing new JSON types for facts storage, and optimizing database queries related to tech insights. They also refactored code to expose the `FactRetrieverEngine` and handle request parameters more efficiently. Furthermore, they fixed an issue with description overflow within the UI components.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
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