Kari Ikonen
Senior Software Engineer at Freska
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKari Ikonen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 12+ years of experience building maintainable, robust, and scalable full-stack products. He brings deep practical experience from long tenures at companies like Freska, Ecolane and Stonesoft, often leading UI/UX design and full-stack development for complex enterprise systems. Kari is pragmatic but detail-obsessed: he optimizes beyond typical choices (e.g., selecting data structures and serialization strategies for cache and network efficiency) while insisting on small, consistent UI details that make software invisible to users. Comfortable across server and client sides, he blends architectural thinking with hands-on implementation and coordination of cross-functional teams. His ethos—KISS, no silver bullets, and no broken windows—drives long-lived, high-quality products he’s proud to maintain.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
High school of KiteeEntrepreneurial University, Entrepreneurial University at University of Joensuu
English, Spanish, Swedish
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-framework10
erd10
direct3d10
html10
json10
database-access10
selector10
css10
searching10
desktop10
alt-tab10
oracle10
rollupjs10
directx10
windows10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kikonen/config
May 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
kikonen/gi_test_engine
Mar 2015 - Nov 2019
Test engine to try out host app
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
hosttest-engine
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