Ari Jaaksi
Artist Owner at University of Tampere
Finland
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Top SchoolAri Jaaksi is a seasoned product, software, and business executive with a Ph.D. in Software Engineering and nearly three decades of hands-on engineering and leadership experience across Nokia, HP, Intel, and Mozilla. He has built and led large teams and product organizations—ranging from embedded browser stacks shipped in hundreds of millions of devices to pioneering IoT and Web-of-Things initiatives—while also guiding startups through exits and advising boards. Based in Finland, he balances academic roles as a professor and board chair duties with creative practice as a fine-art analog photographer, applying the same discipline and intentionality to both craft and technology. Ari is known for translating deep technical mastery (C/C++/Java origins) into strategic product vision and operational rigor across continents. An advocate for open source and developer ecosystems, he blends startup agility with enterprise-scale delivery and a curiosity that led him from shipping devices to running an art studio.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Software Engineering at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018MSc Education, MSc Education at University of Tampere 1925-2018
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Github Skills (33)
timepicker10
user-friendly10
android-library10
pickerview10
android10
datepicker10
recyclerview10
java9
kotlin9
decoupling9
coordinatorlayout9
tablayout8
reorderable-list8
recyclerview-adapter8
annotations7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jaaksi/pickerview
Feb 2018 - May 2020
One very very user-friendly Picker library（内部提供两种常用类型的Picker：时间选择器（支持聚合）和联动选择器（支持不联动）。支持扩展自定义Picker。支持自定义弹窗。支持作为view的非弹窗场景。）
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 2 years 2 months
androidpickerviewpickeruser-friendlypicker-library
jaaksi/CoordinatorLayout
Mar 2025 - Mar 2026
Compose CoordinatorLayout
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
coordinatorlayoutandroidcompose
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