Tomi Paananen
Sr. SDE at Microsoft
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolTomi Paananen is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience at Microsoft and a background in mobile and developer-facing platforms from Nokia and Digia. He combines hands-on engineering—recently automating CI/CD and deployment for Azure TRE—with team leadership, architecture guidance, and developer advocacy. Tomi has a track record of speaking and training at global developer events and has owned developer documentation and sample projects, evidencing strong communication skills alongside technical delivery. Based in Tampere, Finland, he helps startups and partners solve architecture and delivery challenges while contributing to open-source communities. Colleagues know him for pragmatic automation improvements (e.g., secure service principal integrations and CI/CD pipelines) and an easygoing personality that prefers beer over beach walks.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Information Technology, BSc, Information Technology at Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
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Github Skills (21)
azure-application-insights10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
azure-cli10
azure10
devops10
app-insights10
github-ci9
terraform9
terraformer9
githubaction-workflow9
docker8
containerization8
container8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AzureTRE
May 2021 - Nov 2021
An accelerator to help organizations build Trusted Research Environments on Azure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:164 reviews, 37 commits, 67 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tomi primarily focused on automating and streamlining the deployment process for the Azure TRE environment. Their contributions included the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline using Porter, and the integration of a service principal for secure deployment. They automated the publishing of workspace bundles to ACR, and enabled application insights for monitoring the management API and processor function. Additionally, the user updated the scripts for setting secrets and fixed a redirect URI bug.
trustedorganizationsazureacceleratorenvironments
tompaana/teams-app-net-core-sample
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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