Mingfeng Yu
Lead Software Engineer at Vaisala
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMingfeng Yu is a Lead Software Engineer based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience building web GIS, SaaS, and data-driven applications. He has progressed from hands-on spatial analysis and 3D GIS tooling to leading teams and delivering production web services at Vaisala, demonstrating strong full-stack expertise across Python, JavaScript, and spatial databases. Mingfeng has a proven track record optimizing performance in large invoicing systems, architecting REST APIs, and shipping cross-platform Electron apps, showing comfort with both backend scale and user-facing interfaces. He mentors developers and runs training on web mapping solutions, bridging domain knowledge in geoinformation with practical software engineering practices. His academic background in Geographic Information Science and Geoinformation Technology underpins a pragmatic approach to translating complex geospatial requirements into robust software. Colleagues often rely on him for major upgrades and performance-critical refactors that keep long-lived systems maintainable and efficient.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformation Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformation Technology at Aalto UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geographic Information Science and Cartography at China University of Geosciences
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
django10
django-rest-framework10
maps10
javascript9
terraform9
java9
parking9
coordinates9
gis9
backend9
infrastructure9
frontend8
rest-api8
python8
rest8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mingfeng/ltj
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
City of Helsinki nature database and API
Contributions:215 pushes, 163 branches in 3 years 1 month
apihelsinkinaturedatabase
mingfeng/oskari-frontend
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
Frontend implementation for Oskari Map Application Framework
Contributions:77 pushes, 67 branches in 4 months
application-frameworkfrontendmaposkari
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