Vesa Vänskä
Partner at Rails Girls
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVesa Vänskä is a seasoned web developer and partner at Kisko Labs with 17 years of experience building Ruby on Rails and JavaScript-driven web applications. Based in Helsinki, he combines hands-on engineering with community stewardship—co-organizing Finland’s Frozen Rails conference and writing the first Rails Girls workshop guide. His open-source contributions include meaningful front-end UX work on the widely used Rails Girls guides, adding OS-specific command snippets and an OS switcher to improve learning flow. Comfortable across servers, UX and client-side interactivity, he focuses on shipping practical, user-centered web products like WODConnect. A background in digital media gives him a designer’s eye for interface details that elevate everyday developer tooling.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Media, Digital Media, Media, Digital Media at Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Finnish, English
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
remember-me6
cucumber6
paypal6
activemerchant6
rubygems6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
seaside6
ecommerce6
rails4
user-manual4
ruby-rails4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
railsgirls/guides.railsgirls.com
Apr 2012 - Nov 2022
Rails Girls Guides
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 179 commits, 67 PRs in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vesa primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Rails Girls Guides website. Their work involved modifying the HTML structure, removing file extensions, and fixing links. They also added features like OS-specific command-line snippets and a cookie-based operating system switcher, demonstrating a focus on user experience and interactive elements. Additionally, they integrated JavaScript and CSS to style and manage the interactive components, like the operating system switcher.
ruby-on-railsrails-girlsrailsrubygirls
kiskolabs/netvisor
Feb 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 review, 13 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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