Lauri Vuorela
Backend Developer Team Tech Lead at Blocket
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLauri Vuorela is a Backend Developer and Team Tech Lead based in Stockholm with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and integrations, primarily in Python, Docker and AWS. He currently leads backend work at Blocket and previously shaped integration platforms and mentored engineers at fast-growing Billogram. Lauri pairs hands-on full-stack contributions—evidenced by feature work across front-end and server code in an open-source self-hosted audiobook/podcast server—with practical product-facing experience from technical account roles. Known for clear communication with recruiters and a preference for permanent engineering roles, he brings both leadership and individual contributor strengths to cross-functional teams. Outside work he’s an avid coder, card-game enthusiast and reader, which fuels a pragmatic, user-centered approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Naturvetenskap/Data, Naturvetenskap/Data at Fyrisskolan
Finnish, Swedish, English
Github Skills (16)
javascript10
vue10
back-end-development10
vue-jsx10
nodejs8
sql8
database-design7
apidoc7
api7
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
docker4
dockers4
kubernetes3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
advplyr/audiobookshelf
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Lauri primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end of the audiobook server. They implemented a new setting to control the display of series books, adding UI toggles and adjusting server-side queries to filter books based on the setting. The user also modified library settings, including display and finished status configurations, and adjusted the playback session handling. These changes involved modifications across various files including Vue.js components, server-side JavaScript, and database models, indicating full-stack development involvement.
audiobookspodcasthostedself-hostingaudiobookshelf
justcallmelarry/alva
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Friendly neibourghood beer-bot
Contributions:68 commits, 39 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years
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