Mika Vakula
Software Engineer at Swarmia
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMika Vakula is a Helsinki-based software engineer with 11 years of experience combining hands-on coding, product thinking, and organizational leadership. Currently at Swarmia, he has a track record of building teams and shipping software across consultancy and startup environments, including senior roles at Reaktor and CTO duties at Tocoman. He’s equally comfortable writing clean, pragmatic code and shaping company culture—his master’s thesis and recruiting history reflect a long-standing interest in organizational change and people development. A former founder and CEO, he brings entrepreneurial grit and measurable business outcomes to engineering decisions. Notably, he balances technical craft with hiring intuition, often bridging gaps between product, engineering, and growth.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. (Tech.), M.Sc. (Tech.) at Aalto University
English, Finnish, French, Swedish
Github Skills (71)
beautifier10
purescript9
react9
npm-cli9
formatter8
npm8
typescript8
nodejs8
ui-components7
android-browser7
javascript7
vscode7
cordova-ios7
react-components6
package-manager6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mvakula/vscode-purty
Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
PureScript formatter for VS code
Contributions:42 commits, 13 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 9 months
beautifiervscodevscode-extensionvs-codeformatter
mvakula/test
Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 2 branches in 1 year
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