Ari Nykänen
Co-founder, Head Of Product at Starstuff Oy
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolAri Nykänen is a Helsinki-based product leader and creative developer with 10+ years of experience founding and shaping digital and mixed-reality products. As Co-founder and Head of Product at Starstuff and former Head of UX at Speechly, he blends concepting, prototyping and hands-on UX programming to turn line-drawn ideas into polished, playable experiences. His background spans game design, AR/location-based mechanics and agency-level creative direction, having led teams that worked with major partners and shipped commercial titles. Comfortable both sketching early concepts and writing code or art alongside teammates, Ari is as much a maker as a strategic product thinker. He often surfaces unexpected product opportunities by combining playful interaction design with practical business sense.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Taideteollinen korkeakoulu - Konstindustriella högskolan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
speech-to-text10
javascript10
typescript10
browser10
voice10
api10
natural-language-processing10
speech-recognition9
react8
audio8
csharp7
dotnet6
developer-tools5
zero-configuration5
client-library5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
speechly/speechly-demos
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:92 commits in 4 months
speechly/react-ui
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
A collection of React components for Speechly-powered applications
Contributions:27 releases, 2 reviews, 114 commits in 9 months
reactspeechlyspeech-recognitionvoicereact-components
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