Tommi Salonen
Senior Software Developer at Nitor
Vantaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTommi Salonen is a senior full-stack developer based in Vantaa, Finland, with eight years of professional experience and a long history of software engineering roles extending back to 2004. He currently works at Nitor after a decade as a senior consultant at Houston Inc., bringing practical expertise in backend systems, DevOps and CI integrations. Tommi is an active open-source contributor—his work on the jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin improved pending build handling, merge request responsiveness and build-status reporting, enhancing CI visibility for GitLab users. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and combines hands-on coding with pragmatic refactoring and automation skills that reduce operational friction. Colleagues appreciate his steady delivery across enterprise environments and his attention to improving developer workflows rather than just feature surface.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSC, Computer science, MSC, Computer science at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (13)
plugin-development10
javas10
jenkins10
automation10
jenkins-ci10
automations10
gitlab-api10
pipe10
java10
cicd10
pipeline10
jtest9
junit9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
A Jenkins plugin for interfacing with GitLab
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tommi primarily contributed to enhancing the GitLab plugin's functionality, focusing on the integration of pending build statuses and improvements to merge request handling. They implemented features to send build status updates to GitLab, allowing for better visibility of build progress. The user also refactored the code to improve the handling of pending builds, added the ability to cancel builds on merge request updates, and improved the target URLs for cancelled builds. These changes improve the plugin's interaction with GitLab and enhances the user experience.
gitlabjenkins-plugin
Houston-Inc/ruuvi-tag-gateway
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 months
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