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Machine Learning Engineer at Valohai

KEYWORDS: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, fluentd, Ansible, Python, Django, TypeScript, React, NumPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Valohai empowers data science professionals by maintaining tool-agnostic machine infrastructure, making experiments reproducible, encouraging sharing, reducing manual labor, and keeping everything cost-efficient.

I work as a machine learning engineer and a full-stack developer; consulting data science teams how to setup their data pipelines and building predictive model lifecycle management solutions.

Valohai

Machine Learning Engineer / Founder

KEYWORDS: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, node.js, node-webkit, Backbone.js, AngularJS, Ember.js, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, Unity, Python, Flask, DevOps, AWS Mechanical Turk, SQS, S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Redshift, AWS Data Pipelines, AWS Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Heroku

Leap Motion is a San Francisco-based motion-control hardware company founded in 2010. 

I lead the research tooling & web architecture team, and our responsibilities were:

- Design, development, and maintenance of 10+ internal and public web services including marketing websites, blog, forums, web store, online documentation, build tools, performance analytics, product usage analytics and various research tools.

- Design, development, and maintenance of OS X and Windows desktop client for downloadable apps and an online service for supplying those apps.

- Design, development, and maintenance of hundreds of automated servers on top of AWS for various use cases such as research processing and analytics pipelines.

- As the team technical lead, I took point on exploring, evaluating and planning architecture used for the concrete implementation; and shepherding the code quality. I also got admitted the engineer manager responsibilities in the team, e.g., handling evaluation of potential recruits and having weekly one-on-ones with the other team members about their personal development.

Leap Motion

Full Stack Developer / Technical Lead

KEYWORDS: PHP, CodeIgniter, JavaScript, DevOps, Puppet, Vagrant, Memcached, MySQL, Legal

Lakivälitys is a Finnish web marketplace for legal services where people and businesses can find and compare lawyers and receive price quotes. I joined their founder team as they needed a senior developer for their more complex development needs.

I worked on the web team and our responsibilities where:

- Design, development, sysops, and maintenance of Lakivalitys. I'm also handling the validation and planning of all the significant technological implementation details.

Lakivälitys.fi

Full Stack Developer / Partner

KEYWORDS: Game Design, JavaScript, node.js, node-webkit, PhoneGap, iOS, Android, C#, Unity, PHP, DevOps, Vagrant, Puppet, AWS, Azure

Jalomieli is a game development and software workshop studio in Turku, Finland. I co-founded it in 2013 with a good friend of mine. We had a stable income, but then I was approached with an offer from San Francisco tech scene that I couldn't refuse and sold my shares of the company.

My responsibilities as the founder and creative director were:

- Project management, software architecture, game design, game development, web design, web development and all-around code cowboy in internal and client projects.

Jalomieli

Full Stack Developer / Founder

KEYWORDS: Enterprise Resource Planning, Delphi, PHP, JavaScript, Backbone.js, SysOps, PostgreSQL, Memcached, Business Intelligence, Business Automation, Analytics

Tehden develops enterprise resource planning solutions in Finland.

I worked on the web team, and our responsibilities were:

- Design, development, and maintenance of a well-being and retail business focused enterprise resource planning web platform and related online appointment booking services.

- Design, development, and maintenance of a large scale proprietary enterprise resource planning application for Windows, underlying architecture and database solutions.

- Back then, we didn't have a designated in-house designer, so I was in charge of interface design and usability of new features.

Tehden

Full Stack Developer

KEYWORDS: Python, C++, Desktop Applications, Scientific Research, Analytics

I worked at University of Turku before enrolling there as a student of computer science.

While working as a research software engineer, my responsibilities were:

- Developing various research applications to aid evolution psychology related studies.

- Traveling across southern Finland negotiating and performing on site research related to human companion selection, beauty and sexuality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
http://news.sciencemag.org/chemistry/2013/05/manly-sweat-makes-other-men-more-cooperative
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/04/how-feminine-your-girlfriends-face

University of Turku

Software Engineer / Research Assistant

KEYWORDS: DevOps, Networking, Network Security, CISCO Hardware Installations

As part of the __mandatory__ Finnish military service, I worked as an information systems technician and technician instructor for the Finnish Defence Forces. The initial technician position was offered to top 20 national applicants and of which I was also selected to be the instructor for the next batch of technicians.

My responsibilities as the instructor were:

- Educating computer network installation, configuration and maintenance to officer trainees at Riihimäki. All of the installations were approached with the requirement of extreme transmission secrecy.

- Coordination and installation of short distance cable and long distance fiber networks at various military facilities around Lahti, Pirkkala, Halli and Niinisalo. 

- Planning and managing projects related to previously mentioned topics.

Ruksi Korpisara