Foreca

FULL STACK & PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT • Developed and maintained production-grade weather applications serving multiple customers and international markets using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express. • Modernized legacy systems by migrating applications to contemporary web architectures, improving scalability, maintainability, and development efficiency. • Designed and implemented a developer platform with dynamic API documentation, authentication, interactive mapping tools, and automated testing pipelines. MAPS & DATA VISUALIZATION • Developed geospatial and weather data visualization solutions using MapLibre GL, Leaflet, and weather APIs, enabling interactive map-based user experiences. COLLABORATION & ENGINEERING PRACTICES • Collaborated across multidisciplinary teams, acting as a bridge between software engineering, weather experts, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-facing products and internal tools. • Leveraged modern development practices including GitHub, automated testing, and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and maintain code quality. VISUAL DESIGN (ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD) • Designed UI graphics, weather icons, map colour schemes, and legends using Adobe Illustrator; deep expertise in vector graphics and PostScript for automated print layout pipelines. PRODUCTION SYSTEMS & LINUX • Operated and maintained Linux-based weather data production systems, including Bash scripting, SSH/rsync file transfers, and configuration file editing for automated newspaper weather page generation. WEATHERSCAPE VIDEO PRODUCTION • Became in-house expert on the Weatherscape animation system: data ingestion, rendering pipelines, template creation, and training meteorologists on day-to-day use — including MTV3 broadcast weather production.

Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

Served as assistant on the Software Engineering and Software Projects courses. On Software Engineering, I acted as a workshop instructor and was also responsible for teaching and guiding other instructors. On Software Projects, I guided student groups implementing real-life client projects in teams following Scrum.

Munkkiniemi School

Full-time art teacher in primary and upper secondary school. Responsibilities included teaching matriculation exam courses, organising student exhibitions, developing international cooperation with schools in Tallinn and Copenhagen, graphic design for school publications, and acting as tutor teacher for upper secondary students.

Various schools

Worked in diverse teaching roles as an art, PE and class teacher at primary, upper secondary and vocational school levels. Key positions: art and culture course teacher at HELPA Helsinki Service Sector Institute (2010–2011) and PE and visual arts teacher at Helsinki Co-educational School (2005–2008). Also served as summer school headmaster at Kesälukioseura (2006–2007) and museum guide at Hvitträsk (2004–2006).