Sami Mäkelä
Senior Software Designer at Solita
Turku, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolSami Mäkelä is a Senior Software Designer based in Turku with over 14 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native and enterprise applications, and more than 20 years in the software field overall. He has deep expertise in Java and JVM ecosystems (Groovy, Kotlin), modern frameworks (Spring Boot, Micronaut), and cloud orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform, applied extensively in healthcare and public sector projects. Sami has driven architecture and full-stack delivery across multiple roles—software developer, architect and team lead—working with integration standards such as HL7/FHIR and databases from MySQL/Postgres to MongoDB. He combines practical DevOps skills on Azure with front-end experience (React, TypeScript, AngularJS) to ship robust, compliant solutions for regulated domains. Notably, Sami’s career blends low-level telecom and embedded experience from early work with C and DX200 with contemporary cloud-native architecture, giving him a rare end-to-end systems perspective.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, Information logistics, B.Eng, Information logistics at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences - SAMKM.Sc., Computer science, M.Sc., Computer science at Turun yliopistoJärvenpään Lukio
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (52)
application-framework10
object-mapping10
web-application10
grails10
groovy10
neo4j9
asset-pipeline9
grav-plugin9
mongodb9
database-migration8
hibernate8
pipeline8
sql8
grails-plugin8
java8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smakela/grails-spring-security-radius
Nov 2011 - Jun 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
authenticationradius
smakela/re-303-buildguide
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
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