Oskari Virtaoja
Head Of Engineering at Swarmia
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolOskari Virtaoja is a Head of Engineering based in Helsinki with 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web platforms across startups and larger organizations. He progressed from junior developer roles at Sulake to engineering leadership at Smartly.io and now leads engineering at Swarmia, blending deep full-stack expertise with people management. Known for asking "why" and "how," he focuses on continuous improvement, measurable team outcomes, and pragmatic solutions to security and scalability challenges. His background includes work on Flowdock through multiple acquisitions, giving him practical insight into maintaining product continuity during rapid change. Oskari pairs a technical M.Sc. in Computer Science with a competitive, curious mindset that drives rapid learning and reliable delivery.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, Finnish
Github Skills (77)
apollo-client10
kotlin-multiplatform10
apollographql10
dependency-injection10
isomorphic10
ui-framework10
d3js10
kotlin10
caching10
injection10
omniauth10
graphql-client10
graphql10
flowdock9
svg9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
OsQu/OsQuVim
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:40 pushes in 4 years
smartlyio/statsd
May 2016 - Oct 2017
A Ruby Statsd client that isn't a direct port of the Python example code. Because Ruby isn't Python.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonrubystatsd-clientdirectstatsd
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