Michael Holopainen
Lead Software Engineer at SOK
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Holopainen is a Lead Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 25+ years of end-to-end software delivery experience, specializing in large, complex systems for government, postal, insurance and healthcare sectors. Comfortable in hands-on architect roles, he blends deep JVM expertise (Java, Clojure, Kotlin) with full-stack JavaScript, hybrid database design and strong AWS/cloud proficiency to modernize case, document and business process management platforms. He champions pragmatic engineering practices—KISS, Agile, Clean Code, CI/CD and BDD—and has a track record of rescuing troubled projects and steering renewals and migrations to production-grade architectures. Michael pairs technical depth with practical product insight, having worked closely with CTOs and technical leads to align solutions with business needs. Less obvious: he often serves as a de facto technical lead or scrum master without the formal title, bringing both hands-on coding and high-level architectural decision-making to delivery teams.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Computer Science, Unfinished Computer Science at HeliaUnfinished (Abbobatur) Computer Science, Unfinished (Abbobatur) Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Finnish
Github Skills (69)
react-component10
data-validation9
bpmn9
json-schema9
forms9
oai9
json9
java9
spring-data-rest9
springfox9
business-process-management8
process-management8
security8
business-process8
react8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikezerosix/7days2monitor
Sep 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 6 years 8 months
diededicated-serverdedicatedapp-managementmonitoring
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