Alex Jokela
Lead Software Engineer at CleanCounts (formerly M-RETS)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Jokela is a lead software engineer with 14 years of experience building and managing teams that deliver spatiotemporal data mining and geospatial systems. He combines deep technical fluency in AWS, Linux, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Ruby on Rails and Python with a track record of scaling cloud-native analytics platforms and serverless products by hundreds of percent. Alex has led cross-functional initiatives in academia, energy, and edtech—translating complex research datasets into production-grade services such as the TerraPop platform and enterprise energy optimization tools. He excels at mentoring engineering teams, implementing agile practices in matrix organizations, and aligning product roadmaps with market ROI. Notably, his background bridges academic research workflows and commercial product development, enabling pragmatic architectures for large-scale, time-and-place indexed data. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he’s as comfortable optimizing PL/pgSQL queries as he is recruiting and growing teams to deliver measurable customer value.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
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Github Skills (62)
pcie8
pdal7
gcode7
abstraction7
mpc7
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cnc-controller6
raspberry6
3d-printing6
node-red6
sql6
python6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ajokela/tinycomputers.github.io
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:10 PRs, 143 pushes, 15 branches in 11 days
ajokela/mnpopcenter.github.io
May 2019 - Oct 2022
The MPC IT blog.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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