Laura Vuorenoja

Finland

Bio

Laura Vuorenoja is a technology strategist and a hands-on architect with an extensive and versatile background in software development. She has been using Go in many hobby and professional projects since 2016.

Laura is researching self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials in her team at OP Lab, the innovation unit of the largest bank in Finland (OP Financial Group). Despite her researcher role, she values good software development disciplines and constantly tries to eliminate all manual and tedious work through automation.

In addition to her passion for building a safer and better internet for the future, she is an Open Source enthusiast and an active member and mentor in the Finnish coding community for women. When not coding, she sings contemporary Finnish poetry with her choir or wanders in the wilderness. She is also a massive Eurovision Song Contest fan.