Roni Laukkarinen
Founder, CTO, Chairman Of The Board at Digitoimisto Dude
Jyväskylä, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolRolle Laukkarinen is a founder and long-time CTO who has spent 14 years building a purpose-driven WordPress agency from Jyväskylä, leading Digitoimisto Dude through 300+ web projects while championing open source, transparent operations and tightly integrated server+WP stacks. He combines hands-on full‑stack skills (Python, JS, PHP, CSS/SASS, Unix tooling) with product-minded front-end polish—evidenced by UI theming work on projects like Radiant Player—and a persistent focus on accessibility and maintainable infrastructure. A natural technical leader who shifted from CEO to CTO to Chair, Rolle also handles company finances and still ships code, bridging strategy, ops and execution. Outside agency work he composes synthwave music and runs niche blogs, reflecting a creative streak that influences his design-forward engineering approach.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Volapaja, Music, guitar, musical studies, music history, Volapaja, Music, guitar, musical studies, music history at VoimalaitosTyövoimapoliittinen asiakaspalvelukoulutus, Customer service, Työvoimapoliittinen asiakaspalvelukoulutus, Customer service at InnoTyöverkko OsuuskuntaAdministrator, MakeMSI, Microsoft Windows Installer, Administrator, MakeMSI, Microsoft Windows Installer at Jyväskylän yliopistoFinnish Matriculation Examination, Finnish Matriculation Examination at Cygnaeus-lukioHTML5, HTML5, CSS3, HTML5, HTML5, CSS3 at TieturiCreative writer, Creative writing, poems, Creative writer, Creative writing, poems at Jyväskylän Kirjailijatalo
Finnish, English, Sign languages
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Github Skills (15)
customizer10
css10
custom-theme10
ui-design10
customisation10
front-end-development9
htaccess6
wordpress6
capistrano6
php6
javascript6
postcss6
jquery6
ssh6
testing6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
radiant-player/radiant-player-mac
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
:notes: Turn Google Play Music into a separate, beautiful application that integrates with your Mac.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Roni primarily focused on theming and styling the Google Play Music interface within the Radiant Player application. Their commits addressed CSS formatting and consistency, altering background colors, text colors, and padding to create a consistent "Spotify Black" theme. They added and fixed icons, logos, and colors to align the design with the Google Play Music application. The user implemented changes that impacted the visual appearance and user experience.
notesmusic-playgoogle-play-musicseparatemac
ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
🐘🐦 Mastodon web UI, but strongly inspired by Twitter.
Contributions:147 releases, 42 PRs, 917 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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