Matias Kirvelä
Server Engineer at Supercell
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolMatias Kirvelä is a seasoned server engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating high-scale game backends, currently developing server-side systems for Clash Royale at Supercell in Helsinki. He has a strong history of shipping production server code and leading engineering efforts across game studios and consultancies, including senior roles at Grand Cru and Futurice. Comfortable both as a hands-on developer and a technical lead, he focuses on resilient, maintainable server architecture for real-time multiplayer experiences. Known for a dry sense of humor in his GitHub bio, he prefers to be treated as an engineer rather than a mere “resource,” reflecting a pragmatic, efficiency-minded approach. Trained in computer science at the University of Helsinki, he brings deep operational experience and a knack for turning complex distributed problems into reliable services.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki
Github Skills (9)
spice4
betting1
clojure1
trello1
aws1
web-application1
nodejs1
react1
aws-s31
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mkirvela/massikassi
Jun 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 9 years 2 months
mkirvela/dotfiles
May 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:52 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 7 months
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