Vesa Vahermaa
Neuroscience Specialist at National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVesa Vahermaa is a neuroscience specialist based in Helsinki, combining nine years of multidisciplinary experience across academic research and community-facing roles. Currently finishing an MSc in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology at Aalto University, he researches brain–immune interactions in mental disorders at the National Institute for Health and Welfare while contributing to multiple projects at Aalto’s Brain and Mind Laboratory. He blends machine learning expertise applied to psychiatry with practical product and community operations experience from Sharetribe and game studio roles, giving him a rare mix of technical, research and customer-facing skills. Comfortable both in the lab and in customer relations, he has contributed front-end improvements to the open-source Sharetribe Go marketplace, focusing on UX refinements like iconography. Colleagues value his concise communication style and propensity to trade complex academic findings for actionable, user-centered outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS, Neuroscience at Aalto UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Networks, Bachelor's degree, Information Networks at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanBusiness administration, Business administration at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen / RWTH Aachen
English, Finnish, German, Swedish
Github Skills (3)
user-interface10
svg10
front-end-development9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sharetribe/sharetribe
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Sharetribe Go is Sharetribe's old source-available marketplace software, which was also available as a hosted SaaS product. Sharetribe Go is no longer actively maintained.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:181 commits, 173 PRs, 99 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Vesa primarily focused on updating and fixing icons within the Sharetribe Go marketplace software. Their contributions involved modifying existing icon SVGs and adding new ones, specifically for the landing page. The commit messages indicate a strong emphasis on refining the visual presentation of the application through the implementation of various icons. The user was likely working on improving the user interface and user experience related to icons.
golangmarketplaceapihostedno-code
LatvianPython/hackjunction18
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 days
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