Vesa Poikajärvi
Lead Developer at Futurice
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolVesa Poikajärvi is a pragmatic lead developer with over 14 years of hands-on experience and an 18-year professional background across web, mobile, and QA tooling. He currently leads backend development at Futurice, specializing in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Google Cloud for health and finance clients. Vesa has a strong history of designing APIs and production services, and his work often bridges backend systems with front-end needs thanks to daily cross-stack involvement. Earlier roles span team and group management, international experience in China, and low-level test automation and C++ work—evidence of both technical depth and people leadership. He brings a usability-minded master's background from Tampere University of Technology and a pragmatic focus on reproducible, cloud-native systems. Colleagues describe him as a steady architect who moves fluid prototypes into reliable, scalable production.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Software Engineering, Usability, Hypermedia, Master’s Degree, Software Engineering, Usability, Hypermedia at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
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Github Skills (168)
postgresql10
api-client10
databases10
authentication10
typescript-definitions10
swagger10
sap10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
passportjs10
rest-api10
openapi10
javascript10
stubs10
browser10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vesse/omnipay-checkout.fi
Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
vesse/DefinitelyTyped
May 2017 - May 2020
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:23 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years
type-definitionshigh-qualitydefinitionstypescriptquality
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