Lauri Ojansivu
CEO at WeKan
Joensuu, North Karelia, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolLauri Ojansivu is a hands-on CEO and senior full-stack engineer with 11+ years of experience maintaining and commercializing open source software, best known as the primary maintainer of the Wekan kanban board and the TSC platform game. Based in Joensuu, Finland, he combines deep frontend and backend skills with Linux server administration and cloud migrations, having moved high-traffic services to AWS and built long-running production infrastructure. He has driven major code contributions (millions of lines changed) and written much of Wekan’s documentation and multi-platform releases, while also offering paid commercial support. Notably technical rather than managerial, Lauri still moonlights on part-time remote contracts focused on Wekan and Linux server work. His open-source work includes UI, internationalization, and UX improvements for projects like Sandstorm, reflecting a pragmatic focus on usability and localization.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, BBA, Bachelor’s Degree, BBA at Kemi-Tornio AMKHigh School, High School at Ilomantsin lukio
Finnish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
html10
internationalization10
javascript10
localization10
front-end-development10
self-hosting9
css8
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
wekan/wekan
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:452 releases, 31 reviews, 6928 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lauri primarily contributed to Wekan's frontend, making modifications to card details, attachments, and the user interface. They were involved in implementing features, enhancing user interaction, and improving the visual presentation of attachments. Their work included adding styling, creating new UI elements and ensuring the user experience.
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sandstorm-io/sandstorm
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lauri primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and localization features within the Sandstorm web productivity suite. Their contributions involved modifying HTML templates and JavaScript files to translate the application into Finnish, update UI elements, and improve the overall user experience. Furthermore, the user addressed minor issues such as typo fixes and corrected the emphasis of certain text strings. This work demonstrates a focus on improving the application's internationalization and user-friendliness.
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