Björn Kettunen

Software Developer at Jolla

Finland
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Björn Kettunen is a software developer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Linux-based systems, currently contributing to Sailfish OS and hardware adaptations at Jolla. He blends embedded OS work and Qt application development with practical DevOps skills—setting up complex server stacks (Nextcloud, email, LDAP), optimizing build systems, and bootstrapping x86_64 for Sailfish. An active community supporter and reviewer, he organizes events like FOSDEM and helps onboard community contributions. His open-source contributions include scripting and tooling improvements for Hyper-V Linux VM support, showing attention to clean, maintainable automation. Based in Finland, he pairs a systems-oriented background with a knack for cross-platform Qt/Kirigami projects and pragmatic security-driven maintenance.
code13 years of coding experience
bookcertified IT-Assistant, IT-Assistant, -, certified IT-Assistant, IT-Assistant, - at Hellweg trade school Unna
bookadvanced technical college entrance qualification, 1.8, advanced technical college entrance qualification, 1.8 at Hauptschule am Ostpark Dortmund
bookcomputer science expert, subject: software development, Computer Science, computer science expert, subject: software development, Computer Science at Bildungsinstitut plus GmbH
languagesEnglish, German
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Github Skills (20)

administrator10
url-encoding10
admin10
authentication10
linux10
bash10
user-authentication10
url-scheme10
url-validation10
url-parsing10
emacs-lisp10
ubuntu10
script10
administration10
url-parser10

Programming languages (34)

C#CCMakeMakefileGoCommon LispHTMLTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

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microsoft/linux-vm-tools

Mar 2018 - Mar 2018

Hyper-V Linux Guest VM Enhancements
Role in this project:
userDevOps Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Björn focused on improving the installation script for XRDP on Ubuntu 18.04 within the context of enhancing Hyper-V Linux Guest VM features. Their contributions include cleaning up the code, removing unnecessary `sudo` commands, and optimizing the script by using `--quiet` flags. The user also modified and refactored the script, replacing the use of `cat` and bash, and adding the functionality for handling modules by creating separate files.
vdihyper-vlinuxvirtioenhancements
Thaodan/ktp-accounts-kcm

Jun 2016 - Jan 2019

Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
kcmaccountstelepathymessaginginstant-messaging
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Björn Kettunen - Software Developer at Jolla