Pasi Salo
Co-founder Staff Engineer at Hoxhunt
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPasi Salo is a co-founder and staff engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications and startups from Helsinki, combining a Master’s in Software Business and Engineering with hands-on full-stack development. As a founder at Hoxhunt he helped create a gamified continuous phishing simulation that shifts security training from classroom to product-led learning, blending product thinking with engineering. His background spans SPA and backend work (Rails, Backbone, ASP.NET/C#) and a track record of shipping customer-facing services and company practices. Comfortable at the intersection of tech and business, he gravitates toward creating novel web services and operational habits that scale. An entrepreneurial operator by trade, he brings both tactical coding depth and strategic product instinct to early-stage growth.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Aalto UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanUndergraduate, Undergraduate at Olari High-school
English, Swedish, Finnish
Github Skills (80)
plugin9
mongodb9
react-component8
javascript8
react8
eslint-plugin8
npm8
nodejs8
realtime7
organize7
database7
build-system7
eslint-config7
idp7
eslint7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kirstu/saml-idp
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Simple SAML IDP for development purposes
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 8 months
idpsaml-idpsaml2identity-providersaml
kirstu/twitch-hawking
Apr 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 11 months
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