Olli Raula
Engineering Manager at RELEX Solutions
Turku Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolOlli Raula is an Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling backend systems, now leading engineering at RELEX Solutions. He specializes in Go-powered data processing, automation-first workflows, and performance tuning—having implemented multithreading improvements and extensive end-to-end test frameworks for complex optimization algorithms. Olli brings deep practical experience with PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Service Bus patterns and petabyte-scale storage, and has modernized legacy services from Node/Scala to Go and Postgres. He excels at eliciting real user needs beyond initial requests and automating toil across CI/CD, linting, and testing to let teams focus on core problems. Early work on Chromium/Crosswalk honed his ability to work in massive codebases and complex Git flows, a skill that still informs his pragmatic approach to refactoring and system evolution. Based in Turku, Finland, he pairs technical depth with collaborative leadership and a subtle habit of using tooling (and occasionally AI) to speed better solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange studies Computer security, Exchange studies Computer security at University of TwenteDegree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering Computer Engineering, Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering Computer Engineering at Aalto Universityylioppilastutkinto, ylioppilastutkinto at Lohjan lukio
Finnish, English
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
chromium9
refactoring9
webextension8
ui-components7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
crosswalk-project/crosswalk
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
A web runtime built on Chrome. This project is currently unmaintained.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 44 PRs, 59 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Olli primarily focused on refactoring code related to `scoped_ptr` to use `std::move`. This involved changes across multiple files within the `crosswalk` project, indicating a broad understanding of the codebase. The commits also touch upon areas like extension handling and UI components, suggesting a full-stack involvement in the project's maintenance and updates. These code modifications seem to prepare for an eventual Chromium update within the Crosswalk project.
chrome
Bysmyyr/chromium-crosswalk
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:30 pushes, 19 branches in 7 months
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