Virva Svala
Web Developer at Foreca
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVirva Svala is a web developer based in Helsinki with a decade of professional experience and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki. She has developed production web solutions at Foreca since 2020 and supported software engineering education as a course assistant in Java and software production. Her background in art education and audiovisual communication (MA and M.Ed.) gives her a distinctive blend of design sensibility and pedagogical clarity when crafting user-facing features. Comfortable across the full web stack, she brings practical experience turning course concepts into maintainable code and mentoring peers. Known for bridging creative and technical domains, she often leverages visual thinking to simplify complex interfaces and improve developer handoffs.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Educational Sciences, Master of Education (M.Ed.), Educational Sciences at Oulun yliopistoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 5, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 5 at University of HelsinkiMaster of Arts (M.A.), Master of Education, Art Education, Fine arts, Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Education, Art Education, Fine arts at Aalto-yliopistospecial vocational qualification, Audovisual communication,, special vocational qualification, Audovisual communication, at Otavan opisto
finish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (11)
testing9
javafx9
frontend6
react6
mongodb5
nodejs5
javascript4
typescript3
graphql3
full-stack3
backend3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wood101/DefinitionOfDone-Lukuvinkkikirjasto
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Ohjelmistotuotantokurssin miniprojekti: lukuvinkkikirjasto
Contributions:83 commits, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 24 days
vsvala/Art_Club_back
May 2019 - Jul 2026
Fullstack project
Contributions:149 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
reactjavascriptexpressnodejsgraphql
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