Work Experience
Vesa Haaparanta
Chief Engineer, Virtual Systems at Patria Land Oy
Defence
Aug 2025 – PresentTampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Software Developer
Feb 2024 – Jul 2025Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
IT Consultant / System Engineer / Software Developer
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
- Worked at client Patria Aviation Oy
- Transitioned to direct employment at Patria Aviation Oy at end of assignment
Full Stack Developer
Nov 2022 – Dec 2022Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
- Worked on the Penna project (services.fsd.tuni.fi/penna) including backend development with SQL
- Full stack development with jQuery, Pyramid, HTML, and CSS
- Conducted usability testing and heuristic evaluations
UX Researcher
Sep 2022 – Nov 2022Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
- Course project for HTI.300 Usability Evaluation Methods
- Heuristic evaluation, usability testing, and user interviews
Software Developer
Jun 2022 – Oct 2022Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
- Processed and validated XML with Python
- Re-produced and redesigned over a dozen legacy programs
- Migrated version control from Mercurial to GitLab
- Built comprehensive test suites for legacy and new applications
Software & Game Simulation Developer
Jul 2021 – Mar 2022Säkylä, Satakunta, Finland
- Designed and implemented new features for simulators
- Organized training for hundreds of conscripts and soldiers
- Improved simulation performance and investigated bugs
- Created and maintained documentation; tested simulation functionality and gameplay