The many sides of Valentin

Writing code daily, bug fixing, code investigation, chats with colleagues, meetings with the customers, endless learning and exploring something new... I enjoy creating something that is needed and useful. And in IT I can deliver results quickly. It's very different to changing industrial hardware which sometimes took years.

Team spirit is about helping and supporting each other in everyday life no matter our skillset. At Lamia I feel mixing senior and junior developers in teams works well because everyone is equally eager to learn and to support each other. Recently one interesting project was about creating a credit card process where I cooperated closely with the customer, project managers, designers and backend and frontend developers. I cannot thank enough my great teammates Wellu, Antti, Marc, Yura, Tomi, Laura and other people involved. For me, the greatest value of Lamia is the team. A few months ago I also started working with Nuxt and Vue in a new exciting project and received great support from my project manager Markus and lead developer Jean.

"It's only when I lose myself in someone else that I find myself." (song by Depeche Mode)

My family makes my life complete. We, humans, we always plan something, scared to lose our freedom. But we fail again and again. Because life should go on naturally, and we shouldn't restrict the ways our love grows (when bound to devotion). Because true love provides freedom and happiness we are all looking for. Our children, the ones who are sometimes so difficult, are the essence of love, they show how much we are all able to love with our wound hearts.

Thus, programming is an important part of my life, but I reject the programming of life.

As time goes by, you quickly realize the years are leaking like water. In 100 years no one will probably remember our names and our daily problems. My code will probably then be improved, rewritten, forgotten for the sake of something new. But now that we live, we feel true importance of our existence. I believe we are here to help each other and make the world a little bit better place to live. This brotherhood in time is good to remember.

I am a man of faith. Not a good one, really. But I'm trying to do my best at my job. Sometimes I fail. Truly speaking, I fail all the time. But, when it happens, I feel the force, which continues moving me on. I think I wouldn't make anything useful if I wouldn't fail. I don't believe our life is pre-programmed for misfortunes, but I'm sure it's guided by someone who loves us and makes good things even out of our failures.