Antti Virolainen is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 17 years of experience based in Helsinki, best known for building Sharetribe, an influential open-source marketplace platform. He progressed from CTO to COO and now serves as Co-Founder & CFO, blending hands-on back-end engineering with product, operations and financial leadership. His contributions to the sharetribe/sharetribe repo—spanning session management, internationalization, statistics features and logging—reflect deep back-end and infrastructure instincts. Since 2022 he also coaches and facilitates workshops at Good Life Maps, applying his cognitive science background to help teams and founders turn complex technical and organizational challenges into practical outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus, Computer Science, Erasmus, Computer Science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Pakilan yläaste
Master of Science in Technology, Information Networks, Master of Science in Technology, Information Networks at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Master of Science in Technology, Information Networks, Master of Science in Technology, Information Networks at Aalto-yliopisto
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science at University of Helsinki
matriculation examination, matriculation examination at Mäkelänrinteen lukio
Sharetribe Go is Sharetribe's old source-available marketplace software, which was also available as a hosted SaaS product. Sharetribe Go is no longer actively maintained.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3692 commits, 59 PRs, 101 pushes in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Antti appears to be a back-end developer, primarily focused on the configuration and functionality of the application. Their commits involve modifying session storage, adding internationalization for error pages, fixing bugs, and adding features related to statistics, showcasing a wide breadth of knowledge within the back-end of the application. They also demonstrate an understanding of infrastructure with their changes to logging configurations.
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