Olli Suoranta (born in August 24, 1990) is a Finnish Frontend Developer and an Artist. He has contributed to companies such as Paytrail, Star Arcade, Solteq and Mega Cat Studios.
He spent his early years by creating games and programs with ‘Klik n Play’, producing music with Casio SK-1, cassette tapes and ‘Hip Hop eJay’, creating stop-motion animation with toys and a cheap webcams. By learning and experimenting without the internet using the power of Windows 95, multimedia spectacles were created and then forgotten.
After misadventures in the realm of electricity and automation, as a newly graduated ‘Automation Mechanic’ he took steps towards something more interesting and graduated from ‘University of Applied Sciences (JAMK)’ as a Software Engineer (B.E.). Bunch of time was spent by watching Star Trek, having LAN parties and learning Linux, Vim and LAMP servers.
Few years of back-end work made Olli to leap towards his natural interests, leading him into the world of UX. Nowadays he is passionate about creating both accessible and beautiful user experiences for all ages. He is especially fascinated by decluttering, privacy, open-source software and all that jazz..
Currently Olli is working at Aiwo as an UI Developer.