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title: "Graphic designer and frontend developer Mikael Korpela"
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title: "Frontend developer and UI designer Mikael Korpela"
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description: "I build websites and campaigns for the largest brands in Europe and Finland by working mostly with digital and advertising agencies. I’m very experienced both at graphic design and at frontend development."
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<p class="lead cv-lead">I build websites and campaigns for the biggest brands in Europe and in Finland by working mostly with digital and advertising agencies, as well with startups. I'm very experienced both at design and development.</p>
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<p class="lead cv-lead">
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I build websites and campaigns for the biggest brands in Europe and in
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Finland by working mostly with digital and advertising agencies, as
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well with startups. I'm very experienced both at design and development.
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<p>I've done loads — my industry experience is extensive. I’m active open source contributor and visionary free/share-economics activist. I've won a couple of awards with my teams and I regularly give interviews about my projects.</p>
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I've done loads — my industry experience is extensive. I’m active open
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source contributor and visionary free/share-economics activist. I've won
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a couple of awards with my teams and I regularly give interviews about
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my projects.
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<p>Currently I'm concentrating mostly on consulting, startups and open source.</p>
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<h3>Exhaustive list of the techy stuff I'm familiar with</h3>
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<ul class="links-colorless list-skills">
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<li>JavaScript since <em>forever</em>. Single page apps. JS at client &amp; server side</li>
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<li>PHP also since <em>forever</em></li>
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<li><a href="http://nginx.org">Nginx</a> & <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/">Apache</a> servers</li>
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<li>Basic understanding of Python, <a href="http://coffeescript.org/">CoffeeScript</a> and Ruby languages</li>
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<li>Databases; MySQL since 2000 and <a href="http://www.mongodb.org/">MongoDB</a> since 2013</li>
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<li>Running and configuring <a href="https://nginx.org/">Nginx</a> & <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/">Apache</a> servers (for 150K+ monthly users)</li>
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<li>Basic understanding of Python and Ruby languages, as well different JavaScript variants like <a href="http://coffeescript.org/">CoffeeScript</a>.</li>
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<li>Databases: MySQL (and other SQL variants) since 2000 and <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/">MongoDB</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="https://angularjs.org/">AngularJS</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org">Wordpress</a> since 2004 (I'm <em>very</em> experienced with WP)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org">Wordpress</a> since 2004 (I'm <em>very</em> experienced with WP — from small quick sites to massive complicated, multilingual systems)</li>
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<li><a href="http://nodejs.org">NodeJS</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="http://expressjs.com/">ExpressJS</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="https://cordova.apache.org/">Cordova</a> (<a href="http://phonegap.com/">PhoneGAP</a>) since 2011</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.meteor.com">MeteorJS</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.symfony.com">Symfony2</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org">Mediawiki</a> since 2008</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.crasman.fi/fi/palvelut/crasman-stage-julkaisujarjestelma/">Crasman Stage CMS</a></li>
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<li>Transactional email systems</li>
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<li>Linux server maintenace</li>
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<li>Testing and Continuous Integration</li>
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<li><a href="http://gruntjs.com/">Grunt</a> & <a href="http://gulpjs.com/">Gulp</a> since 2013</li>
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<li>Continuous integration and testing systems</li>
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<li><a href="http://gulpjs.com/">Gulp</a>, <a href="http://gruntjs.com/">Grunt</a> and other similar task runners since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a> &amp; <a href="https://subversion.apache.org/">Subversion</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/">Google Maps API</a>, <a href="http://openlayers.org/">OpenLayers</a> and <a href="http://www.leafletjs.com/">Leaflet</a> <em>(I'm generally pretty good with mapping stuff)</em></li>
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<li>Very experienced with <a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a> &amp; <a href="https://subversion.apache.org/">Subversion</a> workflows</li>
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<li><a href="http://expressjs.com/">ExpressJS</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="https://cordova.apache.org/">Cordova</a> since 2011</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.meteor.com">MeteorJS</a> since 2013</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.symfony.com">Symfony2</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org">Mediawiki</a> since 2008</li>
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<a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/">Google Maps API</a>,
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<a href="https://openlayers.org/">OpenLayers</a> and
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<a href="http://www.leafletjs.com/">Leaflet</a> <em>(I'm generally pretty good with mapping stuff!)</em></li>
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<small><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaelkorpela">more on LinkedIn</a></small>
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<p><em>Next up I want to learn React and React-Native.</em></p>
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<p><em>Currently I'm learning React and React-Native.</em></p>
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Developer & Designer
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I've worked with multiple agencies, companies and startups as a freelance developer and designer. SEK, Into-Digital, Crasman, Ad Kiivi and many more.
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I've worked with multiple agencies, companies and startups as a
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freelance developer and designer. SEK, Into-Digital, Crasman,
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Ad Kiivi and many more.
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Trustroots Foundation is a non-profit running free-economy travel community at <a href="https://www.trustroots.org">Trustroots.org</a>. We have 25K members around the world.
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Trustroots Foundation is a non-profit running free-economy travel
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community at <a href="https://www.trustroots.org">Trustroots.org</a>.
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We have 27K members around the world.
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Byroo is a digital advertising agency based in Helsinki. Clients include many of the biggest advertising agencies in Finland and notable brands.
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Byroo was a digital advertising agency based in Helsinki (now part of Creuna). Clients included many of the biggest advertising agencies in Finland and notable brands.
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<h4><a href="http://www.into-digital.fi">Into-Digital Ltd</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="https://into-digital.fi/">Into-Digital Ltd</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="http://www.gemilo.fi">Gemilo Ltd</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="http://www.osuuskuntaraymond.fi/">Raymond,<br>Cultureproduction-cooperative</a></h4>
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Plenty of projects as a freelancer for large and small clients. I've worked around the world — in Finland, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, France, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, USA and Singapore. I've also worked with exhibitions, several small magazines, and have been an instructor and lecturer.
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I'm a very <a href="https://github.com/simison">active</a> open source contributor, e.g. <a href="http://meanjs.org/">MeanJS</a>, <a href="https://github.com/agenda/agenda">AgendaJS</a> and more.
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I've co-organised <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Vilnius-js/">VilniusJS</a> meetups and a dozen small and big <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon">hackathons</a> over the years.
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<em>(I don't really do these anymore but it was fun back then.)</em>
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<blockquote tooltips tooltip-speed="fast" tooltip-side="bottom" class="sidequote" title="Jessamyn West (American Writer, 1902-1984)">Talent is helpful but guts are absolutely necessary.</blockquote>
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