Summary
Antti Kaijanmäki is a Principal Engineer and software deep generalist with 16+ years of professional experience and over 20 years of Linux expertise, specializing in embedded, IoT, cloud and consumer computing. He leads and mentors teams building Yocto-based Linux platforms, RTOS firmware, and certified medical-device software while owning systems-level integration, DevOps and QA for regulated products. A seasoned kernel and system programmer fluent in C/C++, Python and Qt/QML, he has shipped platform middleware, device drivers and UI work across projects at Canonical, Nokia and Bittium. Antti is an active open-source contributor — notable work includes front-end and low-level fixes for the ubports/unity8 environment — and a long-time advocate of FLOSS and GPL ecosystems. Comfortable moving between high-level architecture and assembly-level optimizations, he pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership and technical interviewing responsibilities. Based in Tampere, Finland, he brings a pragmatic, adaptable style that consistently turns complex embedded requirements into robust production solutions.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Embedded systems, Digital design, Computer Science, Master of Science, Embedded systems, Digital design, Computer Science at Tampere University of Technology
graduate, study line of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, graduate, study line of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Päivölän kansanopisto
English, Finnish