Virva Svala
Web Developer at Foreca
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVirva Svala is a web developer based in Helsinki with a decade of professional experience and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki. She has developed production web solutions at Foreca since 2020 and supported software engineering education as a course assistant in Java and software production. Her background in art education and audiovisual communication (MA and M.Ed.) gives her a distinctive blend of design sensibility and pedagogical clarity when crafting user-facing features. Comfortable across the full web stack, she brings practical experience turning course concepts into maintainable code and mentoring peers. Known for bridging creative and technical domains, she often leverages visual thinking to simplify complex interfaces and improve developer handoffs.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Educational Sciences, Master of Education (M.Ed.), Educational Sciences at Oulun yliopistoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 5, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 5 at University of HelsinkiMaster of Arts (M.A.), Master of Education, Art Education, Fine arts, Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Education, Art Education, Fine arts at Aalto-yliopistospecial vocational qualification, Audovisual communication,, special vocational qualification, Audovisual communication, at Otavan opisto
finish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (13)
redux6
react5
javascript5
nodejs5
mongodb4
frontend4
terminology4
backend3
django3
typescript2
python2
graphql2
fundamentals2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TKT-ohjaajarekisteri/TKT-ohjaajarekisteri-front
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Frontend for University of Helsinki CS Department teaching assistant register. Made using React and Node. This registry will be used by students to express their interest to assist on courses. The register will also be used to choose the students that will be assisting.
Contributions:127 commits, 31 PRs, 108 pushes in 6 months
reactassistantteachingjavascriptexpress
vsvala/Art_Club
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Fullstack project
Contributions:166 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
reactjavascriptexpressnodejsgraphql
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