Niilo Jaakkola
Software Engineer at DNA Tower Finland Ltd
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolNiilo Jaakkola is a full-stack software engineer and Tampere University master's student with a decade of hands-on experience building web and embedded systems across startups, defense, and telecom. He specializes in TypeScript (Svelte, React, Node), C/C++, and Python, and is known for a “vanilla TS connoisseur” approach that favors idiomatic, dependency-minimal solutions. Niilo has shipped production features from low-level C++ work to modern frontend stacks at companies like Vertics, Kilt, and Monad, and now contributes to core engineering at DNA Tower Finland. During his conscript service he led a programming team, blending leadership with practical development under constrained conditions—a recurring theme in his career.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Tampere UniversityMatriculation examination, ICT, Matriculation examination, ICT at Kerttuli High School
English, Finnish
Stackoverflow
390reputation
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Github Skills (45)
react8
npm8
nodejs8
threejs7
javascript7
test-runner7
typescript7
bundler7
jsx7
rust7
campus6
api6
3d6
transpiler6
discord-bot6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nipatiitti/noxe
Jan 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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nipatiitti/nipatiitti.github.io
Nov 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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