Kasper Hämäläinen
Senior Platform Engineer
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolKasper Hämäläinen is a Senior Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, serverless applications and modernizing legacy systems using AWS CDK and TypeScript. Based in Chiang Mai, he designs end-to-end data pipelines, real-time analytics, and APIs with services like Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and AppSync, and applies Fargate when containerization is needed. He transitioned from a technical career in media and live events to software engineering in his 30s, bringing a systems-minded approach and a knack for pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Kasper has balanced full-time platform roles with freelance work, giving him experience across startups and client-facing projects and a strong focus on repeatable infrastructure and DevOps best practices. He consistently ships high-quality code and scalable deployments and is skilled at translating complex business requirements into reliable cloud architectures. An interesting facet of his background is hands-on event tech experience, which informs his attention to operational reliability under real-world pressure.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information & Communication Technology, Business & Open Innovation, Bachelor's degree, Information & Communication Technology, Business & Open Innovation at Fontys University of Applied SciencesMatriculation Examination, Matriculation Examination at Savonlinnan Lyseon LukioVocational Qualification in Audio-Visual Communication, Audio-Visual Communication, Vocational Qualification in Audio-Visual Communication, Audio-Visual Communication at Outokummun Ammattiopisto
Finnish, English, Thai
Github Skills (129)
authentication10
lambda-functions10
api10
aws-lambda10
tailwindcss10
aws-appsync10
development-kit10
aws10
amplify9
aws-amplify9
lambda9
cli9
terraform9
serverless9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
miekassu/trpc-aws-lambda
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
miekassu/hello-world
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
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