Aapo Alasuutari
Chief Design Engineer at Valmet
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolAapo Alasuutari is a Chief Design Engineer based in Tampere with 10 years of experience designing and implementing software architectures and data-oriented systems, grounded in a Master’s in Mathematics and knowledge of paraconsistent logic. He leads R&D on Valmet DNA’s user interface, combining hands-on development with design-level decision making to deliver robust industrial UIs. An active open-source contributor, Aapo has worked on Deno’s FFI layer—adding callback and 64-bit parameter support and improving unsafe pointer handling—and is building the Nova JavaScript engine supported by an NLnet grant. His background blends rigorous mathematical thinking with practical systems engineering, and he’s comfortable moving between low-level runtime concerns and high-level product design.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation, Matriculation at Lempäälän lukioMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics, Very Good, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics, Very Good at Tampere University of Technology
English, Swedish, Japanese, Finnish
Github Skills (9)
deno10
rust10
foreign10
ffi10
cffi10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
denoland/deno
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:674 reviews, 54 commits, 124 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Aapo primarily contributed to the FFI (Foreign Function Interface) implementation within the Deno runtime. Their work included adding support for new features like callbacks and 64-bit parameters. They optimized existing FFI APIs and corrected the handling of pointer types. The user also made improvements to the UnsafePointerView, adding static method variants and enhancing its functionality.
rustjavascriptruntimedenotypescript
aapoalas/denonomicon
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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