Matias Korpela
Senior ICT Specialist at Telia Cygate Oy
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMatias Korpela is a Senior ICT Specialist with 11 years of hands-on experience across IT operations, network troubleshooting, and software development, currently leading enterprise network support at Telia Cygate in Finland. He combines deep operational fluency in multi-vendor environments with a developer’s curiosity, often reverse-engineering proprietary systems to enable integrations and automation. His background includes building production update systems (Google Omaha) for national education environments and automating back-office workflows with gRPC-based APIs and invoice-scanning pipelines. Active in open source, he has contributed backend fixes and compatibility features to high-profile Minecraft ecosystem projects like ViaVersion and the Hypixel Public API, improving interoperability and developer ergonomics. Matias’s strength is translating messy operational problems into reliable, maintainable technical solutions that save time and reduce incidents. He’s currently completing an ICT engineering degree at JAMK while continuing to bridge the gap between IT operations and software engineering.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Information and Communication Technology, Information and Communication Technology at Järviseudun ammatti-instituuttiOpen university: Computer Science, Open university: Computer Science at University of HelsinkiEngineer's degree, Information and Communication Technology, Engineer's degree, Information and Communication Technology at JAMK University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (9)
minecraft10
javas10
api10
bukkit10
apidoc10
spigot10
java10
plugin10
protocol-buffers8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ViaVersion/ViaVersion
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Allows the connection of newer clients to older server versions for Minecraft servers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matias primarily focused on modifying code related to the Minecraft version compatibility library, specifically the rewriting of book data and handling of inventory-related actions. They made changes to item rewriting, player packets, and inventory handling, including implementing a provider for quick move actions. Their contributions involved Java code modifications and the addition of configuration options for quick move actions.
bungeecordviaversionspigotconnectionvelocity
HypixelDev/PublicAPI
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Official Java implementation of the Hypixel Public API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 13 days
Contributions summary:Matias primarily focused on modifying and refactoring the `HypixelAPI.java` file, indicating a focus on the API's core logic. These changes included rewriting the `get()` method and modifying callback implementations, indicating a likely goal of improving API functionality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user updated example code to leverage lambdas and functional interfaces, suggesting they were also focused on enhancing the developer experience.
apiminecrafthypixeljavapublic-api
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