Ari Viitala
Data Scientist
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Viitala is a data scientist with nine years of experience applying simulation, optimization, mathematical modeling and machine learning to real-world problems, currently building real-estate valuation and collateral climate-risk monitoring solutions at OP Financial Group. He combines strong academic foundations from Aalto University with hands-on production experience—deploying ML systems on AWS, delivering BI reports, and mentoring advanced analytics through OP Tech Academy. Ari leads a geospatial data science chapter and works with diverse geospatial datasets (flood risk, energy transition, biodiversity) to translate complex data into actionable sustainability reporting. Comfortable coding and web development enable him to both communicate results and operationalize models, a skill set rooted in earlier research on deep reinforcement learning for autonomous control.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Tech.), Mathematics and Operations Research, Graduated with honors, Master of Science (Tech.), Mathematics and Operations Research, Graduated with honors at Aalto University
Github Skills (15)
mirai-bot5
single-user4
hardware4
discord-bot4
discord-js4
raspberry-pi3
scale3
machine-learning3
iot3
discord3
telegram-bot2
self-driving-car2
python2
telegram1
physics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ari-viitala/donkeycar
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Open source hardware and software platform to build a small scale self driving car.
Contributions:106 commits, 114 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
raspberry-piself-drivingmachine-learningscalehardware
ari-viitala/RLDonkeyCar
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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