Roope Kangas
Server Engineer at Supercell
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolRoope Kangas is a seasoned server engineer based in Helsinki with 15 years of experience building and operating backend systems for game companies and startups. Currently at Supercell, he brings deep expertise in scalable server architecture and real-time connectivity honed previously as a co-founder and lead server developer at Grand Cru Games and as a lead developer working on game connectivity at RealNetworks. His background spans low-level systems, platform ports for mobile and feature phones, tooling, and hosting—evidence of a pragmatic engineer who moves between infrastructure and product needs. Roope combines formal computer science training with studies in academic entrepreneurship, reflecting both technical depth and a founder’s mindset. An often-overlooked strength is his long history of working across legacy and modern stacks, making him adept at integrating new services into established production environments.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Academic Entrepeneurship Studies, Academic Entrepeneurship Studies at Helsingin kauppakorkeakouluComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (15)
rascal5
erlang-otp5
statsd4
mapper4
elixir4
csv3
docker-image3
dockerfile3
android3
aws3
dynamodb3
tzdata2
turbo2
object-mapper2
erlang1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
muhmi/AnsibleAWSDeploymentTemplate
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 4 pushes in 3 months
muhmi/exddb
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:108 commits, 2 PRs, 55 pushes in 9 months
object-mapperelixirdynamodbmapperaws
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