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Short- to medium-term backend contracting services for startups. Remote in Finland, working mainly EU timezones. Golang, Kafka, DynamoDB, Postgres, AWS, etc. Hands-on engineering in production and greenfield projects, scaling services and databases, improving monitoring, cloud cost reduction, high throughput, low latency services.Clients:Simulmedia - New York - July 2024 -> Oct 2024Deliveroo - London - Oct 2024 ->

Building scalable high throughput/low latency services like ad servers, streaming data processing pipelines, asynchronous processing. Services are integrated in the game flow in many popular titles like Smite and Brawlhalla.go, Kafka, Dynamo, Postgres, many AWS things.

Building out and scaling our real-time AWS Lambda-based serverless e-commerce fraud detection APIs and data pipelines.Typescript, nodejs, Dynamo, Elasticsearch, redis, SQS, API Gateway, Kinesis

Full-stack development of game systems. Game, server, UI and network programming.Unity, Nodejs, AWS, NoSQL, Redis, Websockets, C#, iOS, Android, Express, bootstrap, JADE.Projects:- The Muscle Hustle (iOS/Android)- Snipers Vs Thieves (iOS/Android)Acquired by THQ Nordic / Embracer Group

Using the latest .NET stack to create and maintain web-based services for our clients. Client and server side programming.C# / .NET, MS SQL, Bootstrap

Level 11 Game Prototype unit (April 2013 - March 2014)Iterative iOS and Android game prototyping - looking for the "next Angry Birds". Molding game ideas into fun prototypes and/or vertical slices. Unity3D, C#, physics, AI, controls, gameplay and network programming.Social Games unit (November 2011 - April 2013)Client-side game programming, networking & security, cross-browser & cross-OS compatibility, social games, live-game maintenance and new features for user retention and monetization. Onboarding new programmers to the project.Acting Lead Game Programmer (client-side) on Angry Birds Friends (June 2012 - April 2013)http://apps.facebook.com/angrybirds/Projects:- Angry Birds Friends [Facebook] (2012-2013)- Angry Birds in Ultrabook Adventure [Facebook] (2012) for Intel- Angry Birds Cheetos (Turkey) (2012)- Angry Birds Vuela Tazos (2011) for PepsiCoActionScript 3, Unity, C#, JS

Creating original web and mobile games and applications. Flash AS3, JS, HTML/CSS, Flex, PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, JavaScript, FB API, MMOs.Projects:Cello Studio (2011) - interior design webappFlailery RPG (2011) - android gamePetra's Planet MMO (2011)Master Of MOT (2011) - box2d based game for a campaignSocial Media Insight (2010)Suunto Academy (2010)Demolition Dude (2010) - box2d based indie game

-Client programmer on a Flash-based MMO project Eco-Rangers. I worked mostly on creating new features to the virtual world and the minigames.-Worked on some marketing websites on the Flash content

Client programmer on Party Island virtual world on Facebook