Pekka Leppänen
Lead Developer at Vend
Tampere, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPekka Leppänen is a Lead Developer based in Tampere with 11 years of hands-on experience across full-stack and front-end engineering, currently shaping product and team delivery at Vend. He consistently gravitates to front-end heavy projects, pairing pixel-conscious UI craft with pragmatic backend and infrastructure work from Node.js to AWS. Comfortable leading small, agile teams, he thrives where a few engineers can make an outsized impact on product quality and developer experience. Pekka’s background spans embedded web apps, testing automation and long-term frontend ownership at Schibsted’s Oikotie, revealing a rare blend of legacy systems experience and modern web craftsmanship. He’s unafraid to pick up new technologies and takes pride in software that looks great both externally and “inside” in terms of architecture and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Good, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Good at Tampere University of Technology
English, Swedish
Github Skills (24)
image-gallery10
image10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
dts10
nodejs-library10
lightbox10
javascript9
virtual-keyboard9
lazy-loading9
lazyload9
browser8
nodejs8
loader8
modular8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PekkaPLeppanen/angular-toastr
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
toastrangular
PekkaPLeppanen/demo-frontend-react
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 2 days
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