Pauli Jaakkola
Owner at Deep Beginnings
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPauli Jaakkola is a pragmatic full-stack developer and owner with 12 years of experience building robust Clojure/JavaScript systems and shipping production applications. He has contributed core logic and performance-focused improvements to the well-regarded Malli data specification library and implemented its seqex engine while working at Metosin. Comfortable across back-end, front-end and infrastructure, he has delivered projects for consultancies and startups and published an Android app using QML/Qt. Based in Helsinki, he combines hands-on programming-language hacking with practical product experience and a background in teaching and community-driven initiatives. Colleagues value his focus on simplicity, testing, and clean macro-expansion techniques that make complex schema logic maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering Software Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering Software Engineering at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Abitur Visual Arts, Abitur Visual Arts at Lapinlahti Senior High School in Visual Arts
Finnish, English
Github Skills (11)
clojure10
data-transformation10
data-validation10
clojure-cli10
clojurescript10
algorithms9
error-handling8
data-structures8
data-structure8
testing7
recursion6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
metosin/malli
May 2019 - Apr 2021
High-performance data-driven data specification library for Clojure/Script.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Algorithm Specialist
Back-end Developer & Algorithm SpecialistContributions:9 reviews, 131 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Pauli primarily contributed to the core logic and functionality of the Malli library, focusing on data schema design and implementation. Their work involved the creation of new features, specifically a macroexpansion style expander and improvements to transformation logic. They also demonstrated a focus on performance by rewriting code for simplicity. Further, they added tests, demonstrating their commitment to code quality and maintainability.
transformationdata-drivenvalidationgeneratorsclojurescript
nilern/piecewise
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:244 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years
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