Taru Airola
People Lead at Wunderdog
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTaru Airola is a Helsinki-based People Lead and senior full-stack engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building production web applications using React, TypeScript, Node and cloud services. At Wunderdog she has moved from core software delivery into tech lead and people leadership roles while continuing to ship front-end integrations and full-stack features across Elixir, PostgreSQL and AWS stacks. Her background includes large domain systems for payroll and finance, PWAs and data-heavy services, demonstrating an ability to navigate complex business logic and scaleable architectures. She holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and pairs technical depth with mentorship—she has also taught coding to children, reflecting a knack for explaining engineering concepts at any level.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation Examination, Matriculation Examination at Helsinki School of Natural SciencesComputer science, Computer science at University of BathMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (8)
ruby8
ruby-on-rails8
nextjs6
closest5
leaderboard4
react3
javascript2
public-transportation2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
turger/jumtsijum
Nov 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 57 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 3 months
turger/ysi-on-ykkonen
Apr 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes in 7 years 6 months
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