Curriculum Vitae: Aki Salmi

Work experience

2020 - 2023 | Germany | BRYTER | Software Engineer

Working as technical agile coach, individual Coach, Running Learning journey to evolutionary design course

Working as internal mediator - helping people being heard and build trustful relationships in complex environment

Senior engineer on building TypeScript language server & runtime for BRYTER applications. Making sure that the engine never breaks.

Running Empathy @ Work trainings total of 11 sessions

Aki is a skilled software crafter, with a lot of expertise in building well-tested quality software. He is an exceptionally good pairing partner

2020 - 2023 | Finland | Rinkkasatiainen Oy | Freelancer

Running trainings on TDD & testability

During the workshop, I gained a deeper understanding on software unit testing, and how to approach different problems one might face when writing tests.

Running Empathy @ Work trainings

2018 - 03/2020 | Finland | Ambientia Oy | Senior Software Architect Magician

Working as technical agile coach, internally and externally. Specializing on TDD, Refactoring and Legacy Code.

Always inspiring, the way Aki facilitates and directs the process leads the team to gain new insights and generate solutions themselves.

2017 - 2018 | Finland | Visma Solutions Oy | Senior Developer

Working with a team on E-invoice operator - making sure numerous transactions happen daily without problems. Code is in AWS, main languages used: Ruby and Javascript (React).

2017 - 2018 | Finland | Rinkkasatiainen | Software Architect, designer, programmer

Designed and architected a survey tool for TuKKK using Java, NodeJS, python running on Google Cloud. Microservices approach, using CQRS+Event Sourcing with Java, and creating aggregated data for AI/ML to use. Highly scalable and available recommendation engine.

2016 | Austria | consulting entrepreneur - CodeCop | Course Trainer

Co-facilitating programming courses on: Introduction to Python programming, Introduction to Refactoring, Introduction to TDD

2014 - 2016 | Finland| Entrepreneur / Rinkkasatiainen | Work guidance

Helping teams and work groups to find joy and meaning at work. Teams are ranging from Schools and nursing homes to IT and scrum teams.

2013 - 2016 | Finland | Small company in private domain | Software Developer

While in the project, Aki brought TDD and Acceptance testing into the development process resulting in huge impact as improved quality of product deployments. This, together with improved collaboration with the customer, helped us to create an environment of trust.

Something odd has happened after you arrived to this project - nowadays product deployments do not break the system elsewhere.

Techniques used: XP practices, Programmer tests, Customer tests, TDD (jUnit), Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, Small Releases, Simple Design, Collective Code Ownership. Framework was Grails - programming language Groovy and Java. For front end, used techniques were pure Javascript, JQuery, CoffeeScript, SASS, HTML5, CSS3, mocha. For supporting tools, we used full Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Stash, Fisheye, Crucible, Bamboo). Tools: Intellij IDEA, VIM, bash

2014 | Finland | Ambientia | Solution Developer

Aki created an integration between Confluence and company user management system - integrating LDAP users signing into user details maintained in the other system. Also, created some customer specific business logic into Confluence

Techniques used: XP practices, TDD, Continuous Integration, Small Releases, microservice, simple design, Language: Java, CoffeeScript, jQuery, jUnit, Mocha, Ruby

2012-2014, 2016 | Finland | Large International Company in industrial internet | Software Developer

Industrial Internet application to monitor equipments and creating graphs. Later introducing Selenium and Serenity as tools for automating UI testing. 

Techniques used: TDD, Customer tests, Java, Groovy, Grails, Javascript,  

2010 - 2012 | Finland | Lindorff invoicing | Scrum Master

Helping 3 teams (together with another ScrumMaster) to excel at work. Facilitating retrospectives, listening to people, helping teams to grow.

Introducing new concepts, tools, processes (BDD & SpecFlow) as options to the team and facilitating discussion on the topics. 

.. thanks to Aki, the teams have found various new work methods and techniques. Aki helps team members to show their best.

2008 - 2010 | Finland | Nokia | Software Developer

Working with a home build content delivery network to deliver all data from Nokia Ovi Store, Nokia Music using different global dontent delivery networks (Akamai and Limelight). Implementing a restful service with a full caching capabilities, stateless service.

Techniques used: Java, Spring, Junit, Continuous Integration, TDD, cucumber, clojure (home-built performance testing)

Working with a home build content delivery network to deliver all data from Nokia Ovi Store, Nokia Music using different global dontent delivery networks (Akamai and Limelight). Implementing a restful service with a full caching capabilities, stateless service.

2003 - 2008 | Finland | Nokia| Software Developer

Working with test automation frameworks with Symbian devices. Creating two different frameworks for Symbian devices

Techniques used: Mercury QuickTest Pro, Ruby.