Niklas Närhinen
Chief Technology Officer at Videobot
Turku, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolNiklas Närhinen is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO with 14 years in SaaS, currently shaping AI-driven products and teams from Turku, Finland. He blends deep full-stack expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby and Python with practical knowledge of RESTful and hypermedia APIs to deliver high-quality web and online video solutions. As a former head of player development at Flowplayer and product manager at Wowza, he pairs product strategy with day-to-day engineering execution to align technology with customer value. He actively applies modern LLM and prompt-engineering techniques in demanding domains like veterinary practice, ensuring AI augments rather than replaces professional decision-making. An open-source contributor, Niklas has improved both back-end ORM behavior and front-end PDF viewing UX in notable projects, demonstrating a habit of shipping pragmatic fixes across the stack. He’s mission-driven and willing to take the difficult path when it best serves customers and the organization.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Mikkelin Yhteiskoulun LukioMSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
Finnish, Swedish, English, German
Stackoverflow
559reputation
62kreached
7answers
4questions
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
object-mapping10
pdf10
php10
orm10
react10
unit-testing9
pdf-viewer9
database-design9
html8
documentation8
css8
propel6
haskell6
flexbox6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
propelorm/Propel
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Current stable (and outdated and unmaintained) version of Propel - Please use v2 https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2 --
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Niklas contributed to the Propel ORM project by fixing bugs, adding features, and improving code quality. Their work included sorting columns in composite foreign keys, adding support for a new date format, and fixing typos in documentation. They also improved doc blocks to clarify function usage and parameters.
propel
wojtekmaj/react-pdf
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the `react-pdf` project. Their work included adding support for file input, enabling the component to react to prop changes, and implementing features like page scaling. They also focused on integrating PDF.js and making the PDF viewing experience more interactive by adding previous and next page navigation controls within an example application.
reactpdfpdf-viewer
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