A passionate software engineer. I thoroughly enjoy working with challenging yet exciting software engineering related work. Be it something I have experience with or something brand new, I am always ready for a challenge!
I am a software engineer with a passion for solving complex issues with technology. I am almost done with my masters in Big Data and Large-scale Computing, and I have a strong interest in technology at large scale. I am currently working as a software engineer consultant at CGI in Helsinki, FI.
My current work project involves creates a tool for aiding in modernizing legacy tech-systems using generative AI.
My current personal project involves writing Conway’s Game of Life in a plethora of languages, including Rust, Zig, and Python. Additionally, I am completing the Codecrafters courses where I get to build famous dev-tools - such as Git, Kafka, Docker etc. - from scratch!
Alongside my passion for tech, I enjoy running, playing video games, and cooking with friends. Additionally, I speak English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Japanese.
Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:I am currently working as a software engineer consultant at CGI in Helsinki, FI. I have been part of 5 projects, ranging from PERN-stack Web Applications to creating a chatbot from scratch akin to ChatGPT based on the GPT-3 model offered by OpenAI. Additionally, I’ve developed and maintained infrastructures in the cloud - AWS and Azure - and conducting various DevOps tasks including implementing CI/CD pipelines.
My current work project involves creates a tool for aiding in modernizing legacy tech-systems using generative AI.
For the course CS-C2130 - Software Project at Aalto University, I was been employed to a team of 8 students (7 developers, 1 Scrum Master) to create a web-based tool for internal use for Sulake’s Art Team based in London.
Bringing various skill sets, the team met the requirements and specifications of our Product Owner and we received positive feedback.
Employed to build a relatively simple website together with my friend as the whole IT-department with a small amount of prior knowledge, we created a vast and complex IT-infrastructure in addition to a complete web application.
Our tasks were many, including security, web and graphic design, server creation and maintenance, and database architecture, which early on gave me a deep appreciation for software engineering.
For my first semester as a second-year student, I worked as a teaching assistant for the largest beginner programming course at Aalto University: Programming 1, targeted at first year students with no prior coding experience. We were tasked with assisting the students with daily programming assignments as well assessing and grading a larger project towards the end of the course.
Assisting via lab sessions as well as a forum allowed me to hone the fundamentals of programming as well as share my knowledge and assist new students in their path of programming.
I partook in a research exchange at Prof. Yoshiro Kawahara’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. The research was conducted under the guidance of Prof. Hiroaki Murakami, which focused on thermal comfort at a university residence during summer. The research results were presented at the 87th National Convention of ISPJ conference in Osaka.
The research title and abstract were the following:
Title: A Case Study on Determinants of Thermal Comfort: Insights into Air Conditioning and Environmental Factors
Abstract: To tackle social challenges and create new business opportunities related to the value of air, this study evaluates thermal comfort during the summer at a university residence, focusing on the effectiveness of air conditioning systems. A survey with 27 participants was conducted, and the data were analyzed using various data mining techniques, such as correlation analysis, tabulations, and clustering. The analysis indicates a correlation between thermal comfort and variables such as issues with humidity and odor, loss of focus, participant’s origin, and window direction. These findings offer insight into the determinants of thermal comfort, serving as a basis for further research into optimizing air conditioning systems and enhancing the value of air in creating more sustainable and comfortable living environments.
I wrote my Bachelor’s Thesis on the topic of “Challenges and Good Practices for Large-Scale Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams”. Similarly to the research I conducted with Prof. Casper Lassenius in 2020, the Thesis was a qualitative analysis on the unique challenges and benefits when adopting Agile at large scale for teams with members distributes to different sites. I was awarded a 5 out of 5 for my well-researched and in-depth analysis of the current state of Agile at scale.
Extracurricular Activities
I am completing the monthly free Codecrafters courses, where you get to build famous dev-tools - such as Git, Kafka, Docker etc. - from scratch!
Last month, I worked on building my own Kafka from scratch using Rust.
Currently, I am building my own shell from scratch using Go. Additionally, this is one of the first times I am using Go - as I feel like this is good timing for it.
Repository for my dotfiles used across my three environments: home desktop, work laptop, and personal laptop. Since each environment have different requirements (terminal behaviour, packages, plugins etc.), they require thei own .zshrc-file, found in it’s respective directory.
There’s an install script that installs the environment from scratch, given that the prequisites are completed. Additionally, common config files across my environments can be found (Git, Starship, and Tmux etc.), which are handled by the installer.
At my first hackathon Junction 2023, our team manages to solve the intricate issue of utilizing generative Artificial Intelligence in a sustainable manner to collect and summarize real time insight to help drive business decisions.
Using efficient retrieval augmentation, our solution focused on validating the output of various LLMs in a sustainable manner, to allow the user to inspect the origin of each sentence, and evaluate how reliable each sentence of the output was - with only ONE call to the LLM. This increases the transparency and reliability in the received output.
Out of all the 37 submission for our category, we managed to snatch the second place!
