Mike Arvela
Engineering Lead, Cloud Platform
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolMike Arvela is a hands-on engineering leader with 15 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-focused products from Tampere, Finland. Currently leading the Cloud Platform team at n8n, he focuses on making n8n Cloud reliable and easy to use while contributing to the open-source n8n project (notably API/CLI improvements, error handling, schema validation, and a core node). His background spans full-stack and backend work across startups and scale-ups—Typescript, Go, Postgres, Kubernetes and messaging systems—combined with people leadership roles dating back to Director level. He has a track record of shipping integrations, webhooks, and tooling (Stripe, GitLab, Sentry) and improving code quality through pragmatic measures like custom ESLint rules. Comfortable toggling between strategy and code, he brings product sensibility to infrastructure work and a penchant for solving subtle runtime and data-integrity issues. An unexpected thread through his career is a creative streak—cofounder work and even performing in a band—reflecting an ability to blend technical rigor with human-centered collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Interactive technology, BSc, Interactive technology at University of Tampere
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Github Skills (31)
apidoc10
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Github contributions (5)
n8n-io/n8n
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Integration Engineer
Back-end & Integration EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 7 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the n8n workflow automation platform by addressing bugs and implementing new features within the application's public API and CLI. Their work focused on improving error handling and schema validation for workflow updates, ensuring data integrity. They also developed a custom ESLint rule to prevent uncaught `JSON.parse()` calls, enhancing code quality and preventing potential runtime errors. Furthermore, they contributed to the creation of a core node for the n8n API, facilitating integrations.
productivity-toolsn8npythonlow-code-platformrpa
futurice/field-ops-guide
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 14 pushes, 1 comment in 11 months
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