Joona Pääkkönen
Staff Software Engineer at Unity
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJoona Pääkkönen is a Staff Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native platforms and leading cross-functional teams. He has deep hands-on expertise in identity and access management, API gateways, and migrating large services to GCP, blending work in Go, JavaScript, Python and infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes and Terraform. Previously a software engineering manager, he couples technical ownership with people leadership—guiding teams through platformization, RBAC design, and zero-downtime migrations. Outside work he’s a family man and board game enthusiast, a detail that mirrors his pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to engineering. Notably, he returned from a six-month parental leave to step into an acting staff role and formalized that position while helping transition his team to new leadership.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Technology at Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
English, Finnish
Github Skills (66)
invalidation10
django10
sdk9
raven9
javascript-client9
python9
sentry9
backend9
caching9
cassandra9
angular8
javascript8
ember8
react8
orm8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
giosg/duke
Feb 2015 - May 2017
Amazing chrome extension project please use
Contributions:4 releases, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 3 months
chrome-extension
paksu/pytelegraf
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Python client for sending metrics to Telegraf
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 months
pythontelegrafinfluxdb
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