Tatu Wikman
Board Member at Tampere Hacklab ry
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTatu Wikman is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently serving as CTO at Vilkas Group while holding board roles at Tampere Hacklab and Hacklab ry. He combines deep back-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used PrestaShop e-commerce platform fixing order management bugs and improving schema.org integration—with operational experience from running his own consultancy, Binary Solutions. His background spans sysadmin work for an ISP, core CMS development, and long-term project management of enterprise shop implementations, giving him a rare full-stack view from infrastructure to product delivery. Based in Tampere, Finland, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and customer-focused delivery to technical strategy and team leadership. Notably, he still engages directly in open-source back-end fixes and test updates, signaling a leader who stays close to the code.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ngee Ann PolytechnicJAMK University of Applied Sciences
Finnish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
php10
back-end-development10
prestashop10
ecommerce10
php-framework9
cms9
testing8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
PrestaShop/PrestaShop
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
PrestaShop is the universal open-source software platform to build your e-commerce solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 42 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tatu primarily contributed to the back-end of the PrestaShop e-commerce platform. Their work included fixing bugs, implementing features related to order management, and enhancing the platform's integration with schema.org for rich data. The user also made updates to core PHP files and test cases within the project. Additionally, the user addressed an issue that prevented the order confirmation screen from appearing correctly for guest users using a 100% discount.
cmsecommercecommerceopencartprestashop
hacklab-fi/icinga-public-page
Feb 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:44 PRs, 60 pushes, 47 branches in 4 years 9 months
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