Aapo Laine
Production Manager at VTA Tekniikka Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolAapo Laine is a production-focused industrial engineer with 21 years of experience improving operations, planning and profitability across manufacturing and development projects. He has led 20-person production units and managed multi-million-euro anodizing operations, delivering measurable gains such as a ~27% productivity increase and a 10–12 percentage point improvement in delivery reliability. Comfortable with both shop-floor leadership and data-driven process development, he leverages ERP analytics and quantitative methods to standardize systems and optimize capacity, costing and reporting. More recently he has expanded into project development—sourcing and turning land plots into profitable assets while negotiating with authorities and procuring large competitive purchases. An active contributor to open-source engineering, he’s applied his backend skills to improve FreeCAD’s TechDraw dimensioning and unit handling, showing attention to detail that bridges CAD tooling and production needs. Based in Helsinki, he combines continuous-learning curiosity with hands-on execution to drive operational turnarounds and strategic growth.
21 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering at Tampere University of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of OuluMaster's degree, Industrial Engineering, Master's degree, Industrial Engineering at Tampere UniversityUpper secondary school, Upper secondary school at Kuortaneen urheilulukio
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FreeCAD/FreeCAD
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 42 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Aapo primarily focused on enhancing the TechDraw module of FreeCAD. Their contributions involved refactoring and improving the code related to dimensioning, including value formatting, tolerance handling, and unit display. They also addressed specific bugs, such as fixing a dimension label unit positioning issue and correcting bugs related to theoretical dimensions. These improvements enhanced the functionality and accuracy of the technical drawing tools.
engineeringmodelerfemedacoin
aapo-aapo/FreeCAD
Nov 2020 - Jan 2025
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. Issues are managed on our own bug tracker at https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker
Contributions:265 pushes, 54 branches in 4 years 2 months
modeler3d-modelstrackerparametricopengl
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