Ville Välimäki
Senior Developer at UpCloud
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVille Välimäki is a Senior Developer based in Tampere with a decade of hands-on experience optimizing product development, bridging the gap between technology and people, and improving developer experience. He currently focuses on DevEx at UpCloud, shaping API integrations and provider tooling (Terraform, Crossplane, Pulumi) while previously driving cloud architecture and a PHP→Go backend migration at WordDive. Comfortable across design, deployment and operations, he blends infrastructure ownership, CI/CD and orchestration with pragmatic backend engineering. Known for translating business and communication needs into scalable technical solutions, he also keeps close to major open-source backend projects and enjoys experimenting with traditional Finnish brewing and outdoor pursuits.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at University of Vaasa
Finnish, English, Swedish, Portuguese
Github Skills (34)
api-client10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
command-line10
golang10
pypi10
cli10
python9
go9
infrastructure-as-code9
packer-plugin9
packer9
packagist8
provisioning8
crossplane8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UpCloudLtd/crossplane-provider-upcloud
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Crossplane provider for UpCloud
Contributions:4 reviews, 27 PRs, 30 pushes in 8 months
crossplanecrossplane-providerupcloud
UpCloudLtd/upcloud-go-api
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Go client for UpCloud's API
Contributions:4 releases, 139 reviews, 19 commits in 1 month
goupcloudupcloud-apiapi-clientgolang
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