Ville Vainio
Chief Cloud Developer at Basware
Pori, Satakunta, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVille Vainio is a seasoned software leader with 20 years of hands-on experience, currently serving as Chief Cloud Developer at Basware where he architected and led cloud and web initiatives across AngularJS front ends and .NET back ends. A lifelong programmer who started coding at 11, he blends deep Linux and open-source enthusiasm with practical systems engineering from embedded and robotics work to large-scale web platforms. His career includes principal engineering roles at Nokia and Microsoft, where he focused on platform readiness and developer tooling, and a track record of moving products from evaluation to production. He contributes to open-source tooling as a back-end developer—most notably integrating IPython into the Leo editor—demonstrating an eye for developer ergonomics and language interoperability. Based in Pori, Finland, Ville combines developer-first leadership with pragmatic cloud architecture and a rare continuity of coding alongside management.
20 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Tampere University of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at Satakunta polytechnic
English
Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
ipython10
python10
integrations9
editor9
editors9
text-processing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
leo-editor/leo-editor
Mar 2008 - Jan 2014
Leo is an Outliner, Editor, IDE and PIM written in 100% Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 487 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ville implemented an IPython plugin for the Leo editor, allowing for code execution within an IPython session. They added settings for specifying command-line arguments to the IPython shell, ensuring Unicode string handling, and also implemented the ability to reuse existing IPython sessions when launching Leo. The user's contributions include managing the integration and interactions between the editor and the IPython kernel, which is indicative of back-end development focus.
pythonsqlite3ideeditorleo
vivainio/RoughGrep
Jul 2018 - Feb 2022
Fast, brutalist UI on top of RipGrep
Contributions:23 releases, 2 reviews, 78 commits in 3 years 8 months
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