Tapio Rautonen
CTO at Idlis Ltd
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTapio Rautonen is a seasoned Java-focused software engineer and technology leader with 13 years of experience building everything from public-facing sites serving millions weekly to business web services and intranets. As CTO and founder-level consultant, he blends hands-on backend development, architecture, and team leadership with a strong emphasis on continuous integration, lean agile practices and JVM-based toolchains. He has deep expertise in Java/JavaEE, Hibernate and cloud-native patterns, and has contributed backend implementations to high-profile benchmark projects like TechEmpower’s FrameworkBenchmarks. A proven mentor and trainer, he has delivered architecture consulting and AWS lectures while promoting state-of-the-art Java technologies and open source tooling. Tapio is now focused on highly automated development pipelines and modern JVM languages, pursuing productivity without losing the joy of programming. Based in Tampere, Finland, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with practical engineering discipline to move projects from concept to reliable production.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Software Systems Hypermedia, M.Sc. Software Systems Hypermedia at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
Finnish, English
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Github Skills (21)
spark10
mysql10
java10
javas10
hibernate10
maven9
performance-analysis8
benchmarking8
performance-monitor8
frameworkbenchmarks8
benchmark8
json8
logstash6
tcp6
logstash-logback-encoder6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Apr 2013 - Jan 2014
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tapio primarily contributed to implementing and testing a Spark framework within the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project. They developed the core application logic, including database interactions using Hibernate and setting up routes for JSON and database queries. The user also configured the application, including setting up the database connection and integrating it with the Resin server. Further contributions involved implementing plain text endpoint and dependency updates and some minor tweaks to improve the application's behavior.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
trautonen/jersey-mustache
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:58 commits in 1 year
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