Ville Kentta

I am a Senior Software Engineer from Ilmajoki, Finland. My main interest is web frontend, but I like to tackle all kinds of interesting software problems. Keeping things as simple as possible. Clean code <3

2017-06-05 —

Senior Software engineer

Highlights

  • Developed features and maintained existing code base for HappyOrNot reporting service.
  • Implemented various digital feedback collection channels.
  • Improved and implemented new developer tooling.

2014-03-01 — 2017-05-31

Software engineer

Highlights

  • Developed features and maintained existing code base for surveypal survey forms and survey administration / integrations interface.
  • Led tooling modernization from jQuery to React and RequireJS to Webpack.
  • Introduced pub/sub pattern to the frontend codebase before redux was even a thing :)

2012-06-01 — 2013-12-31

Software developer / research assistant

Highlights

  • Developed a continuous user survey tool along with admin interface.
  • Was the only developer in the project, built everything from ground up.

2011-02-01 — 2013-09-30

IT Admin

Highlights

  • Managed computer hardware and software.
  • Managed windows/linux file/util servers.

Tampere University of Technology 2007-08-01 — 2015-02-18

Department of Pervasive Computing
Master

Making a web-application more mobile-friendly, case: Surveypal 2015-02-18

My Masters thesis on investigating possible options to make an existing web-application work better on mobile devices.

Web Development

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node
  • PostgreSQL

Containers

  • Docker
Finnish
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Swedish
Basics

Software

  • Software design
  • Utils
  • Security
  • Usability

Computers

  • Hardware
  • Laptop
  • Desktop

Home Entertainment

  • HiFi
  • Home Theater
  • Gaming
  • Movies

Exercise

  • Jogging
  • Gym

Ville is an outstanding outside-the-box thinking software professional that is an absolute pleasure to work with as a product owner. During our journey at HappyOrNot we developed together a number of top priority features with agile methodologies always keeping the customer focus in mind. Ville often contributes with his own ideas on many levels, keeps the team spirit up, embraces changes and likes to try new things. He is also happily guiding other team members and sharing his strong frontend implementation capabilities with the rest of the R&D. He excels in software development and I can happily recommend him for any software development and specification positions.

— Teo Laitinen

Ville is a well skilled developer capable of implementing and designing user oriented software. He is experienced with wide selection of frontend technologies and always aims to improve and optimise both the software in question and the processes developing it. He is good in interacting with the other developers, testers or business. I'm sure he fits well into any team!

— Timo Kallela

Ville is a result-driven, skillful asset for any organization, especially if there's a need to adapt new technologies. Will happily work with Ville also in the future (if possible) and suggest you do the same:)

— Ilkka Kaikuvuo

Ville is an excellent and skillful Software Developer with qualities that are hard to find. He is a great problem solver who can think outside of the box and a faithful practitioner of Software Development best practices. During my work with Ville at Surveypal, he has produced high quality Features, Designs and, performed large Refactoring processes which lowered greatly the technical debt the project and provided quality results for the customers. He is also very knowledgeable and well informed on the technology spectrum but more important, he has the ability to select the appropriate stack of technologies for the job. Working with Ville made chores fun and simple. He is very energetic and dynamic with a great personality that will boost the team morale. I would absolutely recommend Ville for any Senior/Expert Software Development position.

— Jorge Garcia Izaguirre