Ville Vaarala
Founding Engineer at Markku.fi
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVille Vaarala is a founding engineer and seasoned web developer with 11 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript applications across startups and consultancies in Finland. He excels in TypeScript, React, Node.js and modern build tooling, and has progressed from front-end roles to lead product engineering and founding responsibilities. Ville combines academic rigor from Tampere University (BSc, MSc studies) with hands-on entrepreneurship—running a mobile repair/web business before scaling product teams. Known for shipping practical, user-focused interfaces and APIs, he thrives at the intersection of product and engineering. An adaptable collaborator, he brings both consultancy breadth from Futurice and startup velocity from Vektor.io and Markku.fi.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Master of Science (MSc) Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Information Technology at Tampere UniversityExchange Student Software and Knowledge Engineering, Exchange Student Software and Knowledge Engineering at Kasetsart UniversityCellular Master Technician Level I II & III, Cellular Master Technician Level I II & III at Wild PCS Cellular Master Technician TrainingYlioppilastutkinto (Matriculation exam), Ylioppilastutkinto (Matriculation exam) at Tampereen lyseon lukio
Finnish, English, French, Russian, Swedish, Thai
Github Skills (90)
github10
web-performance10
bundler10
javascript10
react-component10
toast10
notification10
compiler10
json10
git10
typescript10
amd10
commonjs10
code-splitting10
splitting10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vaaralav/tut-jobopas
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 8 months
jobstutstudy-guide
vaaralav/react-knockout
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Utilities to connect Knockout observables to React components
Contributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 months
observablesreact-componentsreactknockout
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