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.
3 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 (32)
client-library10
go-client10
oclif10
api-client10
confluent-cloud10
command-line10
golang10
cli10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
packagist9
go9
api9
python-client9
pypi9
Programming languages (4)
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
UpCloudLtd/terraform-provider-upcloud
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Terraform provider for UpCloud
Contributions:213 reviews, 13 commits, 190 PRs in 1 month
golangproviderconfluent-cloudupcloudinfrastructure-as-code
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