Lauri Nevala
Staff Engineer at Mirantis
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolLauri Nevala is a staff engineer based in Helsinki with 15+ years building and operating cloud-native platforms and developer tooling. As a Kontena co-founder and core engineer he helped create an enterprise-grade PaaS/MBaaS and now contributes to an open-source Kubernetes distribution, combining full-stack development with DevOps and cloud integration expertise. He has a track record of shipping pragmatic features and significant refactors—improving service deployment, authorization flows, and cloud integrations—while leading teams from prototype to production. With an MSc in Computer Science (Economics) and experience spanning startup founding to senior roles at Mirantis and Digia, he brings entrepreneurial instincts, systems-level architecture skills, and a knack for turning early experimental tech (early Docker/PaaS) into robust, maintainable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (Economics) Computer Science, MSc (Economics) Computer Science at University of Jyväskylä
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Github Skills (29)
docker10
mysql10
back-end-development10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
yaml10
backend10
devops10
authentication9
docker-compose9
user-authentication9
websocket9
microservices8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kontena/kontena
Mar 2015 - May 2018
The developer friendly container and micro services platform. Works on any cloud, easy to setup, simple to use.
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 410 commits, 341 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lauri's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Kontena platform. They implemented features such as prefixing service names during updates and adding support for prefix wildcards in configuration files, improving service deployment and management. Additionally, the user worked on significant refactoring efforts within the connection, login, and register flows, which involved improvements in user authorization. They also participated in improvements to the cloud integration, demonstrating expertise in both backend and deployment-related tasks.
containersplatform-serviceseasy-clouddockersimple-to-use
kontena/examples
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 8 months
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