Summary
Niilo 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.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Tampere University
Matriculation examination, ICT, Matriculation examination, ICT at Kerttuli High School
English, Finnish