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Helsinki, Fi

Helsinki Area, Finland

Lead architect and developer overseeing a 14-member team, accountable for designing and delivering a robust cloud-based telecommunications product deployed by over 15 major operators worldwide.* Elected to lead the design and development of a new product under a highly demanding schedule, in close cooperation with our pilot customer.* Successfully delivered initial release to pilot customer in 4 months with a small startup team.* Awarded the President's Award in 2020 for outstanding contributions to Nokia Software.* Selected optimal technology stack and modern microservice architecture to meet requirements through research and feasibility studies.* Ensured system security and privacy concerns were satisfied by regularly assessing, documenting, and reviewing potential security risks.* Coordinated with UX and product management and collaborated with architects from different teams to ensure the seamless integration of our products with partnering solutions.* Made substantial contributions to the coding effort by performing over 70% of the Java coding and additionally contributing to the user interface.* Secured the application with RBAC authorisation controls and centralised authentication with OpenID Connect.* Reduced integration efforts 5-fold by replacing complex service bus integration with a custom JavaScript solution for payload adaptation.* Created performance tests with JMeter to benchmark application performance, determine resource requirements, and identify potential performance bottlenecks.* Performed deployments, assessed Kubernetes release compatibility, and contributed to Helm chart development.* Assisted pre-sales and after-care by engaging in customer demos and technical support.(Microservices, Helm, Java, JavaScript, Spring Boot, NoSQL databases, Maven, REST APIs, OpenAPI, integration, Keycloak, RBAC / OAuth / IAM, Docker, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, OpenShift)

Helsinki

Helsinki Area, Finland

Senior software architect and full-stack developer in a large Scrum team, handling development and maintenance of distributed telecom products for major international customers.* Contributed code enhancements and new features to a large complex codebase across three Java-based products.* Added comprehensive reporting functionality through the integration of Jasper Reports.* Improved the user interface by incorporating analytics through the implementation of a JavaScript charting library with D3.* Enhanced the products with centralised user management and authentication by integrating them to OpenAM access management and Active Directory.* Achieved a 20x performance gain in operations by overhauling the implementation of database transactions across the Hibernate ORM layer.(Java, Maven, JavaScript, Relational databases - Oracle / PostgreSQL, access management, SSO, reporting, Git, full-stack)

Helsinki

Joined the company as Senior Software Engineer, later elevated to Chief Architect. Lead the design and development of marketing products and services for mobile and web.* Made significant contributions to the development of the company's Java-based advertising and service platform.* Implemented SMS gateway protocols in Java and C++ for multiple gateway providers.* Delivered a 25x performance gain in their mobile advertising products through storage and query optimisation in their extensive targeting database.* Enriched the product by introducing features to allow customers to efficiently manage their advertisingcampaigns.* Designed and built custom frameworks to achieve highly performant distributed messaging, using RabbitMQ as a broker to manage messaging queues and topics.* Encouraged the use of test-driven development among the R&D team.* Engineered comprehensive full-stack SaaS solutions for bespoke customer projects. Examples include a mobile portal and mapping service for Helsinki city, a personal health portal for a Finnish health clinic, and a WiFi metering service for a major telecom operator.(Java, JavaScript, Maven, RabbitMQ, Relational databases - Oracle / MySQL, messaging protocols, Jasper Reports, HTML+CSS, mobile and web, full-stack)

Lead developer role in the development of web and mobile technologies for a hybrid entertainment platform. Development of software for platform integration with mobile network operators.* Engaged in a full-stack role, creating the community website using PHP, HTML+CSS, and MySQL.

Lead the development of the company's regional mobile WAP service portal using PHP and Oracle.

Developed real-time embedded scientific satellite software, using Ada programming language, on behalf of the European Space Agency.* Interfaced with scientists at ESA headquarters in The Hague to review standards and requirements.* Successfully delivered autonomous telemetry management software for the Proba-1 satellite eventually launched in 2001.