Antti K. Koskela – Microsoft MVP, Azure architect, tech enthusiast
I'm a Finnish software developer and entrepreneur living as a hermit in the beautiful Finnish countryside. Koskila.net is my personal professional (i.e. professional, but definitely personal) website.
This blog is a dedicated place to store important findings and tips from my daily work and tinkering projects—so they aren't scattered across Dropbox, OneNote, OneDrive, email, countless SharePoint team sites, Teams conversations, Windows Sticky Notes, real-world post-its, and various version controls.
Most posts focus on Microsoft's stack, since that's what fills most of my working days.
Who's the author?
Ah – let me introduce myself. I'm Antti K. Koskela, a Finnish tech enthusiast and Microsoft MVP. I started freelancing as a web developer at 14 — a great way for a rural Finnish kid to earn some extra pocket money.
In addition to doing some fun software engineering stuff, I'm a husband to a Finn, dad to one Canadian and one Finn, a custodian/servant to a German Finnish doggo, and after moving to the countryside, apparently also a substandard landscaper of sorts now.
I like working with customers and love sharing any tidbits of knowledge that might be useful to someone else, too.
I have over 10 years of experience in both web-based software development and accounting. During my master's program, I majored in Information Systems Science and minored in Financing and Commercial Law. After graduating, I went on to become a PhD student, but there isn't that much to talk about that yet, to be honest.
So, yeah, my buzzwords – Azure, .NET, SharePoint, Usability, Agile Software Development, Financing, Accounting, Entrepreneurship. I suppose those sum most of my professional life up pretty neatly – I often work on multiple projects at once and am interested in quite a few things.
And what is he doing?
I mainly work as a Solutions Architect at Omnia Intranet.
I'm also involved with Norppandalotti Software (web development and experimenting with non-Microsoft stuff) and ALTER (Virtual Reality stuff).
When I'm not documenting my thoughtful workarounds, I'm, renovating my house (built in the 50s so it's pretty much falling apart) or blogging about it (in Finnish) at www.taloremppa.com.
"Wasn't he speaking at that recent event I attended?"
Yeah, I might've been!
Every now and then, I'm speaking or presenting at different events. In 2017-2019 I was living first in Wisconsin, USA, and then Montréal, Canada, and had the opportunity to participate in a lot of events across the continent!
My sessions are typically SharePoint & Azure related – something about the cool toys I get to work with during my daily work, or about the issues you'll eventually face with so many moving parts in the stack. Essentially, about the same stuff, I blog about on this platform!
What's with the "K." ?
Heh – the middle initial is, for me, at least in Finland pretty mandatory. I guess my parents played it safe when they named me: You wouldn't believe how many people called "Antti Koskela" there are! Not the most unique or surprising of names.
I'd much rather be something, that's a bit easier to SEO (there's plenty of competition! And I constantly get invoiced for something my namesakes keep ordering), but at least you get back the right results when you search for "Antti K. Koskela". Or with my nickname "Koskila". So there's that!
Links to my other stuff
These are links to me in different channels.
I have some demos on YouTube, too!
Below is a playlist of some of my published demo videos on YouTube. I'm occasionally adding new content there, too.
What about koskila.net?
Koskila.net has been up and running since 2009, but in its current form since 2015.
In 2020–2021, it was recognized as a "Top SharePoint blog" (even got a badge! 😎), ranking in the top 15, and then 4th among the top 80. FeedSpot curates and maintains these rankings for tech content.
Top SharePoint Blog
Ranked 4th among top 80 SharePoint blogs
That's it! Got a question? Leave a comment or contact me. Cheers!
My stuff elsewhere
Thoughts on Tech stuff
Reviewing gadgets and exposing scams, I guess
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Study on Airthings sensors battery life
Airthings makes some fantastic sensors. These disc-shaped little ufos have helped me monitor and investigate issues with stuff like Radon and CO2. I’ve posted about the sensors before here: https://www.koskila....- Published on
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Worx Landroid support – is it any good?
I’ve now had Worx Landroid autonomous robot lawn mowers since 2019. And I’m using plural, since I really do have 2 of them!...- Published on
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Site5 (finally) abandoning Europe
This article is a continuation – well, hopefully the ending chapter – of my 10-year-long relationship with Site5. I first migrated to Site5 in 2013....