Hi! I'm a 16-year-old web developer, entrepreneur and high school student living in Central Finland! I have been programming since 7 years old and I got first hired as a developer at 13 years old at Nordcloud. Also at 13 I started my own company and got my first real gig working as rush aid for the startup Novu developing their awesome notification product building mostly integrations to external services such as Apple's APNS and Google's FCM.
I'm really interested in programming, startups and different technologies in general! I'd like to found and build a startup in the future, and I'm pretty sure I will. To make it bit easier, I was helping out with marketing in Andreas Klinger's eu/acc community (yes, that community which led to the petition with over 13k supporters!).
I like hackathons! I have attended Junction three times and Stupid Hack once + some small online challenges. At 12 years old I got 3rd place and best in age group in the national cybersecurity competition challenge.fi and won a bicycle! I haven't participated since, as I like to solve problems instead of trying to break things :)
You can find all kinds of projects in my Github profile @raikasdev. I love open source, and I have been lucky to be able to write both a core product at Novu and internal tools at Dude as my job!
Project showcase
- Mastopoet, my open source screenshot tool for the Mastodon social media site. It's got almost 100 stars 🌟 on Github!
- Kokoustin², a minutes creation tool for the local Youth Council as I was the secretary for over two years. Some screenshots in my Mastodon-post
- ohjelmoi.fi, a prototype of a browser-based Python IDE, that includes Finnish explained error codes powered by the awesome "friendly_traceback"-library
- High schooler's toolkit, I created a small site for my fellow students in our high school where all necessary links to e.g. digital books, school lunch menu, weekly bulletin (formatted using OpenAI's LLM) and prices of local grocery stores
- Wikipedia: RaikastaBot, a Wikipedia bot, that automatically fixes broken discussion links in the Finnish Wikipedia
- HowAreYa?, A tiny full-stack app I developed for Cal.com's challenge that automatically books you every now and then with someone (and not "every 18th of the month at 13:45"). Livestreamed on Algora TV.
- CraftJS, I'm maintaining a Minecraft plugin that allows custom features and game modes be implemented using JavaScript instead of Java powered by GraalVM's polyglot interpreter
- java-ts-generator, a tool I developed to generate TypeScript types from Java libraries for use with CraftJS
- Dysfold, I was part in developing a customized roleplay gaming experience using CraftJS with some friends
- And many more (in Finnish)!
Wanna chat?
You can contact me with the old and reliable email (roni@raikas.dev). You can also find me on social media:
- LinkedIn /in/roni-aikas
- Mastodon raikas@mementomori.social
- Twitter @AikasRoni
My work experience (shortly):
- Full-stack WordPress developer at Digitoimisto Dude agency. I developed e-commerce stores, created new features to existing sites and developed internal tooling (Node.js/Bun).
- A software developer at Nordcloud for the June of 2022 and 2023. Tech stacks were mostly React, TypeScript, Google Cloud and Firebase + Firestore. I was developing internal tools related to sales and big data in a large English-speaking team.
- At Novu as an contractor doing software development using NestJS, React and Firebase Cloud Messaging as "rush aid" alongside middle school.