Jussi Kuokkanen
Technical Director at Uudenmaan Pintasuojaus Ky
Vantaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJussi Kuokkanen is a Technical Director based in Vantaa, Finland, with eight years of professional experience blending hands-on Linux software development and commercial leadership. He has progressed from sales and country management roles in construction-related firms to technical leadership, demonstrating an unusual mix of customer-facing commercial acumen and low-level engineering chops. An active open-source contributor, he implemented a polished emoji completion feature in the C++/Qt Matrix client Nheko-Reborn, showing attention to UX detail and event handling in desktop applications. Comfortable across product, sales, and code, he bridges technical implementation and business requirements to ship practical solutions. He communicates via modern privacy-friendly channels (Matrix) and values minimal, secure contact methods. His background in surface treatments and materials gives him a pragmatic, hands-on problem-solving perspective that complements his software work.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Surface treaments and material technic, Surface treaments and material technic at Evtek
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
emoji10
desktop9
matrix8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Nheko-Reborn/nheko
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 1 issue in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jussi implemented an emoji completer feature for the text input widget. This involved adding a QCompleter, a completion model, and connecting it to the text input to show and handle emoji suggestions. The user also addressed key press events to handle tab and enter key interactions with the emoji completion popup. Furthermore, changes to emoji model and proxy model files were part of the changes.
windowslinuxmatrixdesktopmacos
Lurkki14/tuxclocker-cli
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:48 commits, 26 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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