Tatu Lund
Head Of Expertise at Vaadin
Turku, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolTatu Lund is a pragmatic technology leader and Head of Expertise at Vaadin with over a decade of experience spanning product management, business development, and hands-on software work. He leads a multidisciplinary team delivering training, maintenance and commercial add-ons around the widely used open-source Vaadin Java UI framework, and is an active contributor to core repos such as vaadin/framework and vaadin/flow. His background blends deep technical skills (Java, C++, web UI, XSS mitigation) with strategy, innovation management and go-to-market execution from startups to Nokia-scale programs. He’s known for taking on projects “no one has done before,” combining entrepreneurial grit with a willingness to do practical hands-on work. Tatu’s academic foundation in computer science and bioinformatics and experience teaching adds analytical rigor and clear communication to his leadership. Based in Turku, Finland, he pairs product vision with measurable outcomes in training, support and productization of developer-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Turun yliopisto / University of TurkuMaster of Business Administration (eMBA), 33%, Master of Business Administration (eMBA), 33% at Turku School of Economics, University of Turku
English, Swedish, Spanish, French, Finnish, Latin, German
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Github Skills (25)
application-framework10
webapp-framework10
web-application10
vaadin10
data-set10
ui-design10
grids10
java10
data-model10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
webapp10
vaadin-flow10
grid10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vaadin/framework
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 164 reviews, 214 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tatu primarily contributed to the Vaadin framework, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes for the UI components. The user implemented features, such as adding a row index to the ItemClickEvent in the Grid component, and addressed issues related to autocompletion in the ComboBox component. The user also corrected JavaDoc entries, improved the handling of various UI elements, and updated the framework with improvements related to browser compatibility.
javavaadinvaadin-frameworkweb-application-framework
vaadin/flow
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Vaadin Flow is a Java framework binding Vaadin web components to Java. This is part of Vaadin 10+.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 109 commits, 85 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tatu primarily contributed to the Vaadin Flow framework by addressing various issues and implementing enhancements. Their work involved sanitizing user inputs to prevent XSS vulnerabilities, removing timeout settings from NPM commands, and fixing IPv6 escaping. They also added a constructor with the `scanNestedDefinitions` option and implemented methods for controlling validation behavior, including disabling validators and writing beans as drafts. The user's contributions span multiple areas of the Vaadin Flow framework, including Binder and Data.
javavaadinvaadin-flowweb-componentsweb-application-framework
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