Mehdi Javan
Software Engineering Manager & Software Architect at Ekahau
Turku, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolMehdi Javan is a seasoned software engineering manager and architect based in Turku, Finland, with over eight years of recent professional experience and a decades-long career designing enterprise systems. He excels at rescuing and modernizing legacy codebases as well as architecting new scalable web and financial systems, blending strong object-oriented design with pragmatic leadership of large engineering teams. At Ekahau he progressed from architect to engineering manager, and previously shaped web frameworks and UI behavior as a senior developer at Vaadin—contributing fixes and documentation to the widely used Vaadin Flow and Framework projects. His background spans Java, .NET, Oracle stacks and front-end UX improvements, reflecting a rare full-stack fluency across backend routing, serialization, and component behavior. Known for improving developer workflows and test infrastructure, he pairs hands-on coding with architectural oversight and hiring/mentoring responsibility. An avid problem-solver, he brings both institutional-scale architecture experience and a habit of refining small but critical details (e.g., NPE fixes and docs) that keep large projects robust.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Shahid Bahonar University, Iran - Kerman
English, French, Persian, Finnish
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Github Skills (23)
application-framework10
uitest10
webapp-framework10
web-application10
vaadin10
java10
javas10
webapp10
vaadin-flow10
web-framework10
ui-testing10
osgi9
test-automation8
selenium-ide8
selenium8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vaadin/framework
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 29 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mehdi primarily contributed to the UI/UX aspects of the Vaadin framework. Their commits addressed issues related to component behavior, keyboard navigation, and visual presentation, specifically focusing on the ComboBox and Grid components. They also made changes to the test suite, ensuring the UI elements functioned as expected. Furthermore, they updated the test infrastructure for Chrome 69.
javavaadinvaadin-frameworkweb-application-framework
vaadin/flow
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
Vaadin Flow is a Java framework binding Vaadin web components to Java. This is part of Vaadin 10+.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 104 commits, 183 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Mehdi primarily contributed to the Vaadin Flow framework by enhancing JavaDoc documentation for the `VaadinSession` class. They also fixed a potential `NullPointerException` in the `Binder` class related to unbinding during bean reading. Further work involved excluding OSGi packages in a serializable test and fixing a typo in UI Javadoc. Finally, the user worked on dynamically registering and unregistering routes in OSGi.
javavaadinvaadin-flowweb-componentsweb-application-framework
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