Tero Tilus
Solution Architect at Nordcloud, an IBM Company
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTero Tilus is a Finland-based Solution Architect with 16 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native and serverless systems, currently creating customer solutions and contributing to platform engineering at Nordcloud (an IBM Company). He has led large application maintenance teams and end-to-end delivery for dozens of production services, combining hands-on engineering with product ownership and service management. A pragmatic backend developer with roots in C++, Ruby and JS, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving the sup terminal email client with refactors, hooks and performance fixes. Passionate about sustainable software, better leadership and the electronic frontier, Tero brings a systems-thinking approach and a bias for maintainability that reflects his academic background in mathematical information technology.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Haapaveden lukioM.Sc., Mathematics, Mathematical Information Technology, M.Sc., Mathematics, Mathematical Information Technology at University of Jyväskylä
English, Swedish, German, Finnish, Polish
Stackoverflow
571reputation
49kreached
18answers
4questions
Github Skills (12)
e-mail10
tui10
sendmail10
send-email10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails6
git6
xml6
activerecord6
aws-cloudformation6
amazon-web-services6
xml-parsing6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sup-heliotrope/sup
Oct 2009 - Jan 2011
A curses threads-with-tags style email client (mailing list: supmua@googlegroups.com)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 20 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tero made several significant contributions to the `sup` email client, focusing on improving its functionality and maintainability. They refactored code related to bouncing mail, moving logic to a more appropriate class, and fixed a related bug. Additionally, the user implemented hook-based systems, including a publishing hook and an attachment detection hook, which enhanced the client's flexibility and extensibility. The user also addressed performance issues and improved date formatting within the application.
email-clientemailrubymuatui
terotil/torneopal-live-scoreboard
Mar 2024 - Aug 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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