kaplas

Well hello!

Nice to meet you. My name is Jouni Kaplas. I'm a designer, coder and web enthusiast from Tampere, Finland. I believe in a world where people live in total tranquility, where simpler is better and where divs are mightier than tables.

This Web thing... I've heard about it

I made my first website when I was 11. And that was in 1996. Since then I've created a bunch of those more, learned to write code in various language and studied things like business and entertainment & media management. I won a national Finnish website design competition when I was 16. After that I decided to make a fortune with my skills. It haven't worked out too well yet, but I've learned a lot of things while trying. At least IT and Web became my profession; I just graduated as a MSc in tech last year.

I truly believe that with the advancements of technology we can make this world of ours a better place. Especially Web and mobile technologies will help the lives of billions of people like we couldn't even dream about a few decades ago. I want to be part of making the world a little bit better. And that's not just a dream, because I've decided to write my part of that story.

I'm good at

Speaking with people (that includes both nerds and normal ones). Networking. Presenting stuff. Designing and implementing stuff. Learning.

I also recognize a lot of acronyms: HTML, CSS, {Less}, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, REST, PHP, Perl, Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle Portal, Oracle WCS, C++, C, QT, QML and Symbian C++ to name a few.

I suck at

Various things such as ice skating. I've never learned to skate well even though I'm a finn. Stopping is the harders part.

Professionally wise I suck at complicated things and structures. I'm a simple man, and that's why I try to focus on keeping things simple when I make stuff. Yeah, complicated data models and 15-layer database architectures are nice ones if you're into that kind of stuff. I'm not.

Contact me

I'm more than open to any discussions I may have with you. So please, drop me a message.


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