Ville Saarinen
Salesperson at Scandinavian Outdoor
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVille Saarinen combines 12 years of customer-facing retail experience with formal studies in Information and Communication Technologies, focusing on digital service design and business aspects of IT. Currently working as a salesperson at Scandinavian Outdoor while studying at Haaga-Helia, he brings practical user empathy and problem-solving skills to product and service design. On GitHub he has full-stack experience—contributing backend and frontend fixes to the notable Sharetribe marketplace project, including user management, transaction flows, and CSV data exports. Comfortable with SAP, coding, and database management, Ville bridges technical implementation and commercial needs, aiming to grow into an IT expert. Social, curious, and entrepreneurial (co-founder at Lucified), he thrives on learning and improving user experiences for both customers and digital products.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (14)
adminjs10
ruby-rails10
csv10
rails10
admin10
xadmin10
ruby10
data-export9
marketplace9
platform-agnostic9
user-management9
cross-platform9
html6
javascript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sharetribe/sharetribe
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
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 Sharetribe Go is no longer actively maintained.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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 48 PRs, 96 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ville primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the application by modifying controllers and services related to user management, marketplace transactions, and payment processing. They also implemented features such as exporting user data to CSV, indicating a strong understanding of data manipulation and admin functionalities. Additionally, they made modifications to the frontend (application helper) and added a link to Google Maps. The changes demonstrate the user's involvement across the full stack, with a focus on admin and data export features.
golangmarketplaceapihostedno-code
lucified/minard-ui
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:75 PRs, 225 pushes, 103 branches in 5 months
discordreactnextjsminard
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