Niko Korhonen
Low Earth Orbit, United States
Summary
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SeniorNiko Korhonen is a Senior Software Developer based in Helsinki with over a decade of experience building large-scale backend systems, devops tooling, and IoT solutions. He has driven high-impact services at companies like Unity and Rovio—helping power Unity Ads and the toons.tv streaming platform that reached hundreds of millions monthly users—working across Go, JVM languages, Python, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra and PostgreSQL. As a lead developer he emphasizes psychological safety and high-trust teams while remaining deeply hands-on, frequently operating as a backend/devops hybrid who ships production-grade services. Now freelancing through Non-fungible Talent Oy, he offers expertise in scalable data pipelines, pluggable game backends, and embedded/IoT integrations. Colleagues would note his blend of legacy systems experience (Java/Scala/Eclipse-era tooling) with modern cloud-native practice, making him effective at both rescuing and evolving complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
echo9
middleware9
ssl8
websocket8
micro-framework8
letsencrypt7
go7
cassandra6
go-web-framework5
client-library4
java-api4
web-framework4
java3
consul3
java-client2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Applifier/cassandra-consul-seed-provider
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
providercassandradiscoveryseedservice-discovery
karnauskas/cassandra-consul-seed-provider
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Consul seed provider for Cassandra DB
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
cassandraconsul
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