Samppa Saarela
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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SeniorSampsa Saarela is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable software and leading engineering teams from Helsinki. As owner of ssampsa Oy and partner at NerdCloud he blends entrepreneurial drive with practical delivery, specializing in prototype-driven development and high-quality, maintainable code. He has a long track record as CTO and co-founder across multiple ventures, able to translate business needs into robust technical architectures while guiding several teams simultaneously. Known for speaking “bits and bytes” fluently, he pairs deep technical fluency with an easygoing, collaborative style that keeps ambitious ideas grounded and executable.
13 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (44)
validations10
oai10
typescript10
capacity10
json-api10
validation10
java10
parking10
data-versioning10
aws10
springfox10
spring-data-rest10
spring-boot10
sanitization10
hsl10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ssaarela/javersion
Oct 2013 - Jul 2017
Data versioning library for Java
Contributions:13 releases, 618 commits, 40 PRs in 3 years 9 months
data-versioningjava
finnair/v-validation
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
V stands for Validation
Contributions:63 releases, 24 reviews, 186 commits in 2 years 10 months
validationvalidationsvalidatortypescriptvalidate
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