Ari Jolma
Senior Developer at Simosol Oy
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolAri Jolma is a senior developer and DSc(Tech) with 14+ years building software and information systems for civil and environmental engineering, currently working across AFRY and Simosol while running his own company, Biwatech. He blends academic rigor—from a long tenure as a professor and senior research scientist—with hands-on engineering, producing multiple software packages and publications for environmental management. His focus is on distributed, collaborative, geospatial, open-source and object-oriented solutions, and he has contributed to the widely used GDAL project by extending Perl bindings and improving SWIG-generated interfaces. Ari routinely bridges research and production: he has served on editorial and advisory boards, represented Finland in UNESCO water initiatives, and guided doctoral programs. Colleagues know him for turning complex environmental models into practical, maintainable information systems and for a knack for improving robustness and interoperability in legacy geospatial toolchains.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
DSc(Tech), Civil Engineering, DSc(Tech), Civil Engineering at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
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Github Skills (9)
spatial10
geo10
geospatial10
perl10
swig10
spatial-data10
api8
apidoc8
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OSGeo/gdal
Mar 2016 - Sep 2021
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:125 commits, 20 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ari primarily contributed to the Perl bindings for the GDAL library. Their work focused on extending the existing bindings, adding new methods like `BuildVRT` and extending `Open`, and improving existing functionality related to features such as the `SetField` method. They also addressed various bug fixes, introduced improvements in performance, and refactored components for added robustness. These changes involved generating SWIG interfaces for Python and further development to support the project's data handling capabilities.
licensedrasteriogeospatialrasterdata-formats
ajolma/Geo-OGC-Service-WMTS
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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