Pekka Astala
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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SeniorPekka Astala is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience, currently contributing to Finnair's checkout flows after a stretch as a freelancer and company founder. He moves fluidly between full-stack development, solution architecture, and technical leadership, with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, Azure and stacks including Java, Node, PHP, React and Vue. Pekka began coding at 12, turned professional in 2008, and has led teams and architectures since 2016, blending pragmatic engineering with delivery-focused design. His recent work includes modernization and abuse-mitigation efforts at Spotify and network automation platforms at Elisa, illustrating a knack for solving domain-specific problems that span frontend, backend and data collaborations. Comfortable adopting whatever modern stack a project requires, he favors practical outcomes over technology dogma. Based in Helsinki, he pairs consultancy-honed client engagement skills with startup grit from founding his own company in 2022.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
node-app8
w3c4
devtools4
web-development3
html3
linter3
flutter2
mobile-game1
react-native1
android1
web-standards1
console1
macros1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PekkaAstala/music-automaton
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
A node app that automatically generates melodies
Contributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
node-app
PekkaAstala/Messukone
Aug 2016 - Mar 2023
Web app for printing small brochures with information
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
web-appwebappprinting
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