Essi Jukkala

Essi Jukkala has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Starting in 2012, Essi worked as a Summer Trainee for KPMG Finland and later as a Sales representative for Samsung Electronics. In 2014, Essi joined Aalto University, where they held multiple positions, including Research Assistant, Study Advisor, and Course Assistant. During their time at Aalto University, Essi designed course content, implemented programming exercises, and updated course servers to support C++ and GoogleTest.

In 2017, Essi worked as a Unity Developer for Playmore Games Inc., and in 2018, they joined Shipyard Games as a Junior Game Programmer. At Shipyard Games, Essi contributed to an upcoming location-based game, GoCity, and created build pipelines for iOS and Android. They also gained experience in programming with Unity, C#, and Clojure.

From 2020 to 2022, Essi took on the role of Lead Game Developer at Wondershop, where they worked on the Wonderworld project. In this role, Essi set up project architecture using Firebase and Cloud Functions written in JavaScript. They also utilized Unity for client software development and established CI/CD pipelines for Unity builds and Cloud Functions deployment. Additionally, Essi conducted tests using Jest for Cloud Functions on pull requests.

Currently, Essi is employed at Supercell, starting in 2023 as a Game Programmer. Further details about their current role are not provided in the structured information.

Essi Jukkala holds a Master's Degree in Game Design and Production, which was earned from Aalto University between the years 2015 and 2020. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science from the same institution, completing their studies from 2012 to 2015. Essi is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Helsinki, with a Bachelor's Programme in this field. In addition to their academic achievements, they have also obtained a certification as an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services in December 2022.