Lauri Naulapää

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Experience

Circles Consulting

Senior Consultant

9/2021 - present - 1 yr 4 mos

Architect and lead developer in a greenfield project of a highly customizable asset management and after sales platform. The architecture is based on CQRS and Event Sourcing for high scalability and total traceability. The backend microservices are implemented using .NET 6 and Svelte was used for frontend development.

.NETAzureDevOpsSvelte Event SourcingCQRSDockerEventStoreDBRavenDBSpecFlowViteVitestAuth0TypeScriptSassAzure DevOpsReactReduxAWSSerilog

United Finance Plc

Senior Solutions Architect

12/2017 - 7/2021 - 3 yrs 8 mos

Development of custom cloud based contract management solution running on Azure and implemented with the .NET stack. DevOps related development including setting up CI/CD pipelines, test automation and automated Azure resource deployments. Version upgrade of a complex codebase from .NET 4.6 to .NET Core.

.NETAzureDevOpsReact .NET CoreASP.NET CoreTypeScriptSassBootstrapSeleniumSerilogPowerShellAzure DevOpsAzure App ServiceAzure FunctionsAzure Service BusAzure StorageAzure Key VaultAzure Application InsightsAzure ADEntity Framework CoreIdentityServerSSOSQL Server

Innofactor Plc

Solutions Architect

6/2013 - 12/2017 - 4 yrs 7 mos

Custom online projects using the .NET stack for private, public and healthcare sectors. Public website, extranet and intranet projects using Sitecore and SharePoint as CMS often with SSO integrations. Mobile app development for iOS and Android using Xamarin.

.NETSitecoreVue.js ASP.NET CoreJavaScriptLessCSSBootstrapSpecFlowDevOpsOctopus DeploySharePointAzureSQL ServerXamarinEntity FrameworkSSO

atBusiness

Solutions Architect

8/2010 - 6/2013 - 2 yrs 11 mos

Renewal of a public website for a financial sector company including implementation of online banking and investment processes. Public website and extranet projects using SharePoint.

.NETSitecoreSharePoint ASP.NET MVCKnockoutSQL ServerEntity FrameworkUbisecure SSOWCFJavaScriptCSSSSRS

Trainers' House

Software Developer

1/2008 - 8/2010 - 2 yrs 8 mos

Several projects for financial sector companies. Each project included implementation of end customer online banking/investment processes, CMS for the public website and integrations to backend transaction systems. Development of a leading international engine manufacturer’s online spare part sales system. Microsoft CRM development and integration projects.

.NETSitecoreWCF ASP.NET MVCSharePointOracleSpecFlowAOPSQL ServerMicrosoft Dynamics CRMJavaScriptCSS

Satama Interactive

Software Developer

10/2006 - 12/2008 - 2 yrs 3 mos

Several development projects of a leading maritime engine manufacturer’s online spare part sales system. Tailored online tool for market research and competitor tracking for a major mobile device company. Business Intelligence solution to generate web-analytics reports for customers using SQL Server and SSRS.

.NETASP.NETWCF SQL ServerSSRSBIOracleJavaScriptCSS

Fimentor, Inc.

Software Developer

1/2005 - 10/2006 - 1 yr 10 mos

Development of Finnish national company identification portal. Business intelligence solution development projects using Microsoft SQL Server products including reporting, integration and analysis services. Development of a leading international engine manufacturer’s online spare part sales system.

.NETASP.NETJava Ubisecure SSOBISQL ServerSSRSSSISSSASOracle

Done Information, Inc.

Software Developer

5/2001 - 10/2002 - 1 yr 6 mos

Java web development projects. Road condition video monitoring system development and support.

JavaHTMLJavaScript CSS

Skills

Backend

I have extensive experience with backend development using the .NET stack spanning over 18 years.

I like the robustness of a properly built backend system written in a strongly typed language. All the static analysis that a good development tool or the compiler can do with a strong type system is a good first step in ensuring code quality. This can be further enhanced with the .NET CodeAnalysis annotations or the even more powerful ones provided by ReSharper.

.NET

I have over 18 years of experience using the .NET Framework dating back to version 1.1. I've also used .NET Core in projects since the first version in 2016.

Along the way I've developed web applications using ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core including MVC and other variants. I prefer to define APIs using OpenAPI (especially when there's a third party involved) and implement them as ApiControllers.

I've also worked quite a bit with Azure Function apps which I find expecially useful for background processing and less time critical APIs.

Testing

I quite like the idea of test-driven development but often using pure TDD isn't possible due to time and budget constraints.

I always aim for maximum testability in design even if writing comprehensive tests isn't immediately possible. I find it improves the separation of concerns and leads to better thought out interfaces between components.

I have most experience in writing unit tests is with NUnit, browser based tests with Selenium WebDriver and acceptance test-driven development with SpecFlow.

Logging

I like to have extensive logging especially in critical functionalities. Having more logging in place than initially thought necessary has more than once proved crucial in production.

I prefer using a structured logging framework such as Serilog. Combine it with a sink such as Azure Table Storage where all those bits of data automatically become their own searchable and filterable columns and you have a powerful analytics tool with little effort.

Dependency Injection

I like to use DI even in pretty simple projects. I find that it naturally leads to less coupling and better thought out components.

Over the years I've tried several different DI frameworks. StructureMap was one of my favorites until it was deprecated. Lately I've been using Grace and DryIoc.

OR Mappers

I have experience with at least NHibernate, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework and Entity Framework Core. For new projects I tend to go with EF Core.

Frontend

I used to think of myself as more of a backend developer even though I've been doing frontend work as well pretty much from the beginning. Nowadays I'm equally comfortable with both backend and frontend development and consider myself truly fullstack.

JavaScript Frameworks

Currently my preferred front-end library is Svelte. I've used it successfully in both work and hobby projects. Many things from state management to a whole host of small things are just handeled in a frictionless and clean way.

React was for a long time my favorite and it still would be my second choice (or first if Svelte would be considered too niche). Instead of standard React I might also go with Preact.

If given the option I'd choose TypeScript over JavaScript. Having some proper type checking just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

Apart from Svelte and React I also have some experience using Vue.

CSS

There was a time I hated CSS with a passion. Over the years it's become just a normal part of the toolkit. Good frameworks and SCSS have helped things considerably.

For a long time Bootstrap seemed like the go-to CSS framework with it being used in majority of projects. With CSS grid and flexbox being widely supported bootstrap and other CSS frameworks have become less of a must.

I do like Tailwind CSS, which this site is actually build with. Bulma is another one I have some experience with.

Map APIs

Most of my experience is with Google Maps API which has been a pretty standard choice for embedded mapping needs on websites.

Recently I implemented a fairly rich interactive map application using OpenLayers with OpenStreetMap and other free sources for map data in my own hobby project.

Realtime/event based communication

For real-time and event based communication with the backend I've used SignalR which provides a nice abstraction for WebSockets and automatically uses fallbacks when needed.

Bundling

I've mostly used webpack for TypeScript, JavaScript, SCSS, Less, CSS etc. compiling/transpiling and bundling.

Recently I've also used Vite in a Svelte project and have experimented with Parcel in some of my own projects with good success.

Cloud

I have several years of experience developing either cloud native applications or solutions that utilize cloud based services.

Azure

My cloud experience is mostly with Azure. In a recent customer project everything from the containerized microservices to configuration and databases where running on Azure. Previously at United Finance our platform was also run completely on Azure and utilized a whole host of Azure services.

I've developed solutions using Azure services such as: App Services, Functions, Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Service Bus, Storage (Blob, Tables and Queues), Cpntainer Registry, Key Vault, App Configuration, Automation, Application Insights and Active Directory.

DevOps

I have set up continuous integration and delivery pipelines for several applications mostly using Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps

In a recent project I set up CI/CD pipelines utilizing containerized builds and tests. The integration tests would spin up containers for the databases to enable reliable and repeatable test execution.

While working at United Finance I set up CI builds, continuous delivery to test environments and automated production deployments, all of which were initially lacking. This was done systematically for all app services and function apps in the architecture. These were first set up as classic Azure DevOps build & release pipelines which I later migrated to YAML pipelines.

As part of the process I also created a set of automated unit tests and browser based Selenium UI tests and integrated them to the build and deployment pipelines.

Custom Tools

I've implemented several productivity tools for developers such as log monitoring, searching and error alerts, automated Azure resource creation and configuring, tools for batch permission assignments and running database scripts across environments. These were all related to and running on Azure.

Octopus Deploy

I've set up CI builds and deployment automation in a couple of work projects also using Octopus Deploy.

Database

I have long experience in both using and designing SQL databases as well as some reporting and other Business Intelligence development background.

Document databases such as RavenDB, Cosmos DB and Mongo have also become familiar in a couple of work and hobby projects.

RavenDB

I've worked with RavenDB in a recent project where a document database was the most suitable choice for the main data store.

After considering quite a few other options such as Mongo and Marten, RavenDB was finally chosen for it's well rounded suite of features. Though it's not without its quirks Raven worked well for the project.

EventStoreDB

I've used EventStoreDB as, well, the event store in an event sourcing based application.

SQL Server

I have designed and implemented databases in several projects using Microsoft SQL Server. I've also accumulated solid knowledge on performance optimization using indexes and other mechanisms.

Apart from using the SQL Server as a data store in software projects I also have some experience in developing BI solutions using SQL Server Integration, Analysis and Reporting services.

Oracle

I've used Oracle as a database in a couple of web projects and as a data source for some SQL Server Reporting Services implementations.

Mobile

Mobile first and responsive web design are so common principles nowadays that I feel they've become a normal part of the design and implementation of any new web project.

I also have a bit of native mobile app development experience from both work and more from my own side projects.

Mobile First & Responsive

Most web projects I've been involved in within the last 6+ years have been of either mobile first or at least responsive in design.

Xamarin.Forms

My only work experience with native iOS and Android app development is from one Xamarin.Forms project for the healthcare sector.

Unity

I've used Unity in various game prototypes for my (so far) hobby mobile game company.

Content Management Systems

I've worked with Sitecore and SharePoint as CMS in several web projects.

Sitecore

I've worked on several projects where Sitecore was used as CMS for the public website. Some of these projects were for financial sector companies and included implementations of banking and investment processes on top of Sitecore.

SharePoint

SharePoint is by no means my favorite platform to work with but I've been involved in a couple of projects where public, extranet and intranet sites were built with it.

Languages

Finnish

Native

Native language

English

Fluent

English is pretty close to a second native language for me. It was my primary foreign language at school and later at university the study materials were predominantly in English. At work English has often been a second official language of the company with many coworkers being foreign. I've also lived and traveled in English speaking countries for well over a year and used English at home for a couple of years as a common language with my partner.

Swedish

Basic

I've studied Swedish in school for 9 years but since then I've forgotten much of the vocabulary for lack of use. Still I can understand it a fair bit especially in written form.

German

Basic

I studied German as my third foreign language in school for 5 years. Like with Swedish I haven't had much practise for it after school.

Built with Svelte, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript and Vite. Prerendered with SvelteKit. Hosted as Azure Static Web App. CI/CD using Azure DevOps.