Simo Jokela
Lead Software Engineer at Readpeak
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSimo Jokela is a Lead Software Engineer based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience building responsive web applications and shaping software architecture across PHP and modern JavaScript stacks. He has progressed from hands-on development to technical leadership roles at companies like Nord Software, Digia, and now Readpeak, consistently combining UI/UX sensibility with backend and database design. Comfortable running Agile/SCRUM projects, he excels at translating product needs into maintainable architectures and polished, responsive interfaces. A practical problem-solver, Simo’s background includes game scripting early in his career, which helped hone rapid prototyping skills that he still leverages in shipping features quickly and iteratively.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Information technology Bachelor of science, Information technology Bachelor of science at Savonia University of Applied Sciences
English, Finnish
Github Skills (8)
api8
user-interface8
democracy8
android7
ios6
react6
react-native4
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
City-of-Helsinki/varaamo
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Varaamo is the user interface for the City of Helsinki resource reservation service.
Contributions:219 commits, 41 PRs, 119 pushes in 6 months
user-interfacehelsinkireservation
City-of-Helsinki/open-city-app
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Mobile app for open cities built with React Native
Contributions:50 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
apieventsbuilt-with-reactreactreact-native
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