Paul Brown
Career Break at Career transition
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Brown is an experienced software professional with 12 years in development and a long Nokia-era background who has recently pivoted toward civic-minded work and Effective Altruism, exploring AI safety and public policy. He has strong front-end React and React Native hands-on experience from building and maintaining mobile and web apps at mukavaIT, plus early career systems and protocol expertise from Nokia. As a founder of a sustainability-focused reuse business and a longtime volunteer educator, he blends technical fluency with community engagement, voter education, and inclusion work. Notably, he has practical experience organizing outreach that enabled 500+ overseas voters to access ballots, illustrating his ability to turn technical skills into real-world civic impact. Based in Tampere and fluent in mentoring and teaching roles, he’s seeking opportunities that combine software experience with nonpartisan media, policy, and community-building efforts.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Java, Computer Programming, Java at The Institute for Extension Studies at the University of TampereBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of New MexicoEducation, Basic Studies, Education, Basic Studies at Turun yliopisto - University of TurkuEducation, Advanced Studies, Education, Advanced Studies at University of Tampere 1925-2018
English, Finnish, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto, Russian
Github Skills (46)
datetime10
css10
wai10
momentjs10
datepicker10
timestamp10
wai-aria9
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
ios9
date-formatting9
visual-studio-code9
ruby9
vscode-extension9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frozenzia/full-stack-open
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
tehtävät kurssilta fullstackopen.github.io
Contributions:1 release, 100 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years 5 months
javascriptfullstackopengraphql
frozenzia/full-stack-open-part3
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Trying the full stack course
Contributions:22 PRs, 18 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 1 month
reactfull-stack-coursefull-stackjavascriptexpress
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