Niko Korhonen
Senior Software Developer at Non-fungible Talent Oy
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolNiko Korhonen is a Senior Software Developer based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience building large-scale backend systems, devops tooling, and IoT solutions. He has driven high-impact services at companies like Unity and Rovio—helping power Unity Ads and the toons.tv streaming platform that reached hundreds of millions monthly users—working across Go, JVM languages, Python, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra and PostgreSQL. As a lead developer he emphasizes psychological safety and high-trust teams while remaining deeply hands-on, frequently operating as a backend/devops hybrid who ships production-grade services. Now freelancing through Non-fungible Talent Oy, he offers expertise in scalable data pipelines, pluggable game backends, and embedded/IoT integrations. Colleagues would note his blend of legacy systems experience (Java/Scala/Eclipse-era tooling) with modern cloud-native practice, making him effective at both rescuing and evolving complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Eastern FinlandBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Jyväskylä
Finnish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (24)
echo10
seed9
middleware9
csrf-protection8
micro-framework8
websocket8
ssl8
letsencrypt7
http-server7
fiber6
high-performance6
golang6
cassandra6
go5
go-web-framework5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Applifier/cassandra-consul-seed-provider
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
providercassandradiscoveryseedservice-discovery
karnauskas/cassandra-consul-seed-provider
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Consul seed provider for Cassandra DB
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
seedconsulprovidercassandra
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