Vili Heikkilä
Senior Backend Engineer at ŌURA
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVili Heikkilä is a Senior Backend Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, resilient systems across startups and large tech companies. He has driven backend services at Zalando and HypeHype, working with Go, Kotlin, Kafka, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes, and recently joined ŌURA to continue shaping scalable server-side architectures. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he also rebuilt a company website and CMS with TypeScript/Next.js and contributed to mobile features in Flutter, demonstrating a practical full-stack mindset. A self-taught developer who values lifelong learning, Vili pairs technical depth with strong cross-cultural communication skills from years in international teams. He brings operational ownership—participating in global on-call rotations—and a pragmatic approach to replacing legacy systems without disrupting users. Based in Helsinki with fluent English and native Finnish, he blends engineering rigor with an entrepreneurial spirit cultivated through earlier consulting and founder roles.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration Management and Organization, Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration Management and Organization at University of Vaasa
English, Finnish
Github Skills (43)
clojure10
aws-sdk9
clojurescript9
nodejs7
reasonml7
sdk7
aws7
nvm7
golang6
heroku6
django-project6
django6
javascript6
cli5
k3d5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
anan44/weather_survey
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
Crowd sourced weather service
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
crowdweather-service
anan44/it-starts-with-clojure
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
a Practical guide to Clojure
Contributions:124 commits, 12 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 8 months
clojureclojurescriptpractical
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