Henna
Kotilainen

A soon to graduate fullstack developer and accessibility enthusiast.

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About me

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About me

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Dark roast with oat milk is the only correct way to drink coffee. I love bouldering, books and camping. Especially pair boulders, tik-tok recommended fantasy books and the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park have been this autumn's themes. My cat eats all my plants, I get excited really easily and laugh at stupid engineering jokes.

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Aalto Unirversity

Human-Computer Interaction 2022-

Bioinformation Technology 2018-2022

I’m currently doing my master’s in Human-Computer Interaction focusing on usability, user research, and creating intuitive web services. Before my master’s, I studied bioinformation technology, with an emphasis on analyzing data measured from humans — covering a lot of math, physics, and data analysis.

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Vuono Group

Full Stack Developer

05.2022 -

Worked on a consulting project for a client where we developed a backend utilizing Kotlin and GraphQL. Developed an internal tool with Typescript that fetched and visualized data from the AWS Cost Explorer API.

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Software Developer

06.2020- 12.2021

Developed an internal tool related to secret key management with Python. In addition to quickly learning about a new subject area, I gained experience in working autonomously and proactively gathering information to solve complex, hard to define, problems.

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Skills

Programming skills

I’m comfortable with and know my way around Typescript, Javascript, Python, Kotlin & React. In addition to these technologies, I’ve dabbled in Scala and Rust.

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Values

I value doing work that is both societally significant and personally interesting. I’m especially interested in learning about accessibility on the web, because everyone has the right to information, and I know that accessibility doesn’t happen by accident.