Kalle Ilves
Lecturer (ICT) at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKalle Ilves is a Full Stack Software Developer and Lecturer based in Helsinki with 11 years of experience building web and mobile applications and teaching software development at scale. He has combined hands-on engineering across Node.js, React, TypeScript, GraphQL and various databases with course design and delivery—contributing to the widely used Full Stack Open MOOC and evolving its React Native and CI/CD content. His background spans startups and research labs, leading product development and design system work for AI-driven meeting assistant Nea and production systems used by thousands at the University of Helsinki. As a lecturer at Haaga-Helia and former teacher/developer at the University of Helsinki, he blends practical consulting experience with pedagogy, often turning complex backend features into approachable learning material. Notably, he actively contributes to open educational repos, improving search, translations and course components to lower the barrier for global learners.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Alppila High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, German, Swedish, Finnish
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
react-native10
react10
cicd10
gatsby9
internationalization9
localization9
typescripts8
typescript8
github-ci8
typescript-types8
githubaction-workflow8
fest7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fullstack-hy2020/fullstack-hy2020.github.io
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 170 commits, 588 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kalle contributed to the course content by adding and modifying pages and components for Part 10 and Part 11 of the full-stack open course. They introduced and updated content related to React Native and CI/CD. Additionally, the user made changes to the search functionality and header components and worked on the translation of the course materials.
sebastiantorres86/fullstack-hy2020.github.io
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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