Veikko Karsikko
Tech Lead at Alma Media
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolVeikko Karsikko is a Helsinki-based tech lead with 12 years in software engineering and a strong track record of scaling teams and delivery across product and agency contexts. He has progressed from full-stack developer work (React, Angular, Node, PHP) to senior and director-level roles at Vincit and now leads technical initiatives at Alma Media. Known for marrying hands-on craftsmanship with people management, he emphasizes code quality, testing, and peer review to make teams productive and maintainable. His background includes building startup boilerplates, CMS modules, and client platforms for brands like L'Oréal and Carlsberg, showing comfort across both greenfield products and client work. Colleagues value him for pragmatic leadership that still ships code and mentors engineers through architectural and process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Software Engineering at JAMK University of Applied Sciences
Finnish, English
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Github Skills (111)
expressjs10
linting10
recaptcha10
mean10
mongoose10
javascript10
angular10
typescript10
eslint10
angularjs10
mean-stack10
nodejs10
mongodb10
naming-conventions10
babel-plugin10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vepasto/finnish-hyphenator
Jun 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 9 months
finnish
CodeDistillery/angular-no-captcha
Dec 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 releases, 118 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
no-captcharecaptchaangular-jscaptchajs-wrapper
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