Pete Nykänen
Team Lead Principal Engineer at SOK
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolPete Nykänen is a Helsinki-based technology leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web platforms and guiding engineering teams. Currently a Team Lead / Principal Engineer at SOK after serving as Tech Director at Vincit and Director of Technology at Motley, he blends architecture, R&D and people leadership to turn client needs into scalable products. He is fluent across TypeScript/Node, React, PostgreSQL and cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS) with CI/CD and IaC like GitHub Actions and Terraform. Pete has driven multimillion-euro sales through technical leadership and consulting while also owning recruitment, security and internal IT operations. Comfortable diving into legacy code as much as designing greenfield microservices, he pairs practical developer instincts with strategic vision. Colleagues describe him as a developer-first manager who still ships code and mentors teams to deliver reliable, accessible systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mediatechnology, Bachelor's degree, Mediatechnology at HAMK University Of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (200)
displays10
multiselect10
testing10
autocomplete10
material-ui10
javascript-framework10
automation10
bundler10
web-development10
schema10
graphql-api10
browser10
react-testing-library10
casperjs10
firefox10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
petetnt/brackets
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:61 pushes, 49 branches in 1 year 9 months
cssjavascripthtml-javascripteditorcode-editor
motleyagency/influxdb-incremental-restore
May 2018 - Jun 2020
InfluxDB incremental restore script
Contributions:29 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 1 month
influxdb
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