Kerkko Pelttari
Software Engineer
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolKerkko Pelttari is a Helsinki-based software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building automation, backend and tooling solutions while studying computer science at the University of Helsinki. He has driven key contributions to notable open-source projects—improving image processing in Robocorp’s RPA framework and enhancing Playwright-powered Robot Framework Browser with new web interaction keywords and protocol work. At Robocorp he focused on practical automation improvements; elsewhere he has strengthened CI/CD and macOS code signing for ActivityWatch, showing a knack for build and release engineering. Kerkko blends full-stack development with DevOps sensibilities, comfortable refactoring both Python and JavaScript sides of systems. As an entrepreneur and former board chair, he pairs technical craft with product-minded initiative. Colleagues know him for quietly simplifying complex integrations and adding robust test coverage where it matters.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ylioppilastutkinto, Ylioppilastutkinto at Päivölän KansanopistoBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Finnish
Github Skills (23)
github-ci10
javascript10
python10
scripting10
image-processing10
cicd10
automation10
script10
rpa10
sh10
robotframework10
playwright10
automations10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
MarketSquare/robotframework-browser
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Robot Framework Browser library powered by Playwright.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 10 reviews, 530 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kerkko primarily contributed to the development of the Robot Framework Browser library, focusing on implementing new features and testing existing functionality. Their work involved refactoring code, adding new keywords for interacting with web elements like buttons and text fields, and improving existing tests. A significant portion of their contributions was focused on enhancing the communication protocol used by the library and the Javascript side of the framework.
browserbrowser-libraryrobot-frameworkrobotframeworkrobot
robocorp/rpaframework
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Collection of open-source libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), designed to be used with both Robot Framework and Python
Role in this project:Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 97 commits, 89 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kerkko primarily contributed to the RPA framework by modifying image-related functionalities and integrating new libraries. They refactored the screenshot and image cropping features, replacing the existing screenshot library with `mss`. The user also addressed issues by removing dependencies and correcting code, and by adding new unit tests for image manipulation. These modifications focused on improving the framework's automation capabilities by streamlining image processing and integrating new libraries.
robotic-process-automationpythonprocess-automationroboticsrobocorp
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