Ville Karavirta
Senior Full Stack Developer at Booking.com
Badhoevedorp, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVille Karavirta is a Senior Full Stack Developer with 16 years of experience, currently building user-focused features for Booking.com in Amsterdam. He combines deep academic roots—a D.Sc. and Lic.Sc. in Computer Science—with practical expertise in web and mobile technologies, JavaScript, and e-learning systems. His career began in research on automated assessment and online programming education, which informs a data-driven, usability-minded approach to product development. Comfortable across the full stack, he specializes in enhancing online learning and accommodation discovery experiences across devices. Based in the Netherlands, he brings a disciplined, research-informed perspective to production engineering and a history of translating pedagogical insight into scalable software. Colleagues benefit from his rare mix of rigorous academic training and hands-on shipping experience at a global consumer platform.
16 years of coding experience
M.Sc (Tech), Computer and Information Science, M.Sc (Tech), Computer and Information Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanNaval Reserve Officer Course 138, Naval Reserve Officer Course 138 at Merisotakoulu (Finnish Naval Academy)Matriculation, Matriculation at Luostarivuoren lukio (Turku)
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
parser10
visualization10
django10
lms10
java10
portal10
lists9
react9
bibtex9
data-visualization9
frontend9
python8
fundamentals8
internationalization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vkaravir/JSAV
Jun 2011 - Nov 2019
JavaScript Algorithm Visualization library
Contributions:958 commits, 21 PRs, 42 pushes in 8 years 6 months
visualization-libraryjavascript-algorithmjavascriptalgorithm-visualizationdata-visualization
js-parsons/js-parsons
Mar 2010 - Feb 2018
js-parsons - a JavaScript library for creating Parson's problems; language independent, with additional support for Python code
Contributions:94 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
python-codejavascript-librarypythonlanguage-independentproblems
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