Niko Salonen
Web Developer at Alma Media Corporation
Vantaa, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolNiko Salonen is a seasoned web developer with 11 years of experience, currently leading development on Alma Media’s Alma-tunnus project. He has a strong full-stack background from roles spanning startups and agencies to a major media company, with hands-on experience in PHP/Laravel, WordPress, and modern web stacks. At Alma Media he combines product-minded engineering with technical leadership, shipping reliable user-facing systems. An active contributor to open-source projects, he improved feature integrations for the Bastion Discord bot—demonstrating a knack for separating concerns and building reusable message logic. Based in Vantaa, Finland, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a steady track record of evolving responsibilities since his early internships.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesBachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering at Lahti University of Applied Sciences
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (19)
apim10
javascript10
discord-js10
bots10
api10
discord-bot10
nodejs10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
xfdf6
phantomjs6
php6
pdftk6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TheBastionBot/Bastion
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
🚀 Get an enhanced Discord experience!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Niko contributed to the "Bastion" Discord bot project, primarily focusing on implementing and modifying features related to the "Clash of Clans" integration. They separated message building logic, added functionality for clan member listing, search by string and a warlog command. The user also made improvements to existing bot commands.
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nikosalonen/trainsleaving
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Liikenneviraston Digitraffic-rajapintaa käyttävä GatsbyJS toteutus jolla käyttäjä saa aikataululistan junista jotka liikkuvat vain valittujen asemien välillä.
Contributions:27 PRs, 166 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 10 months
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