Nerd Live

Born and raised in Joensuu, Oona transitioned from an internship to a coder's role in 2017. The work accidentally captivated her, and she currently finds herself in a holding pattern at the University of applied sciences, waiting for 'that moment' in life when she can resume her pursuit of the final academic credits. Oona is drawn to coding by the constant opportunity for learning and devising novel solutions, expressing her unique creativity. Despite having a somewhat full-stack-like job description, if forced to choose between one or the other, Oona would opt for backend work, artistic traits notwithstanding. She's a rather classic INTJ-T case – turbulence is always on the horizon.

In contrast to her day-to-day data wrangling, Oona spends a lot of time outdoors and during the fall-winter axis, her primary hobby is dog sledding. In addition to her personal involvement in the sport, Oona strives to nurture the local dog sledding scene through group training sessions and activities with the Savo-Karjalan Sled Dog Sports Association. Amid her action-packed free time, Oona also sporadically dabbles in photography and video production related to her passion. Unfortunately, her previous beloved e-sports activities have taken a back seat since the recent addition to her family, but a gamer girl can never truly escape the allure of the WASD keys.

During work hours, Oona's headphones are filled with true crime podcasts, and in her free time, she enjoys music ranging from Nekrogoblikon and Turmion Kätilöt to Pariisin Kevät and Ruusut.

Anton is a software developer and works as the head of the maintenance and support team. He is known for his endless tech positivity and childlike enthusiasm for trying and learning new things. Anton is a career changer who switched from a ten-year stint in advertising and music production to coding a few years ago.

Jaakko is a coding enthusiast and the CTO of Evermade, one of the company's founders, who started coding websites professionally in the previous millennium. Jaakko's motto, "everything is possible," has often led him into the deep end of the pool.

Exove's Chief Growth Officer Janne Kalliola has coded since 1983, became a leader during the years, and nowadays focuses more on green coding.

What kind of directions can a developers career take? This year our stream dream team consists of Walto, Aleksi and Joonas. They have all started their careers as developers, and will now discuss their experiences from the perspectives of DevOps, Developer and CEO.

Jonne is our artificial intelligence and machine vision expert from Turku. His background is in mathematics. He works remotely and visits office a few times a year. When we asked Jonne to describe his dream job, he replied: "quite the same as I am doing right now."

Niklas Siltakorpi is a software automation professional with much experience in countless software development projects. His focus is on Cloud and Infrastructure, but he is no stranger to any area under the DevOps umbrella, ranging from test automation to observability.

Teemu Vesala is software development and automation professional with over 20 years of experience. His focus areas are mainly cloud, security, infrastructure as a code, tool support and implementation, CI/CD pipelines, reliability and performance.