Hello world, I amTimo Kirkkala

From Helsinki, Finland.

Web development and tech delivery at work. Basketball, cycling, photography and a dad when not at work.

Drupal has paid the rent since 2009 and is still my deepest stack. Lately I've been into TypeScript, React and NodeJS when it fits. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch when something really ought to be searchable.

Day job: shipping web products as tech delivery lead. Caring about UX, code that won't haunt the next person and happiness within the team. Projects that move fast without tripping the alarms are my favorite.

LinkedIn (opens in new tab) has the CV-shaped version, don't expect updates too often there.

Drupal
PHP
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Docker
Git
Node.js
Elasticsearch
APIs & integrations
Delivery & mentoring
Agile
SCRUM master

My daughter plays at HNMKY (opens in new tab) and I play too, since 2025. Post ice-hockey, post floorball, post soccer, so that basketball court still feels suspiciously new.

I'm also a volunteer with the role of joukkueenjohtaja (team manager). Scheduling and spreadsheets got painful, so I shipped two web app products for the club, all open source:

Club tooling · converter

eLSA → MyClub

A tool to convert the association's eLSA (opens in new tab) excel sheets into MyClub (opens in new tab) compatible format. Saves hours of manual work in the start of every season.

elsa-myclub.hnmky.fi (opens in new tab)

kirkkala/elsa-myclub (opens in new tab)

Club tooling · operations