Mikko Pelkonen
Software Developer at Kela
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMikko Pelkonen is a software developer based in the Helsinki area with nine years of hands-on experience building backend-focused systems and occasional front-end work. He has worked on access control, login flows and notification infrastructure at Smartly.io and currently develops production software at Kela. His experience includes scaling a University of Helsinki Discord bot from a few hundred to over 3,000 users, involving Node, React, Docker and Postgres, showing a knack for refactoring and operational tooling. Comfortable across the stack, he combines practical engineering with attention to observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and reliable deployment patterns. An active builder with a Computer Science degree from the University of Helsinki, he brings steady delivery and incremental improvements to user-facing and internal platforms.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (9)
git8
github8
scrum7
software-design6
patch6
testing5
agile-development5
docker5
subversion3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Malpel/Discord-Bot-better
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:54 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
Malpel/fullstack
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
Full stack development - University course
Contributions:77 PRs, 40 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
reactfull-stack-developmentexpressjsfull-stackjavascript
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