Christian Mäkelä
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Mäkelä is a Senior Software Engineer in Redmond with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and optimizing camera and depth-sensing algorithms for flagship mobile and mixed-reality devices. He specializes in denoising, demosaicing, sharpening, scaling and full software ISP work, and is known for squeezing real-world performance from constrained hardware via Arm NEON assembly and GPU implementations. At Microsoft and formerly Nokia he led imaging pipelines for products including Lumia flagships and HoloLens depth cameras, blending algorithmic rigor with production-grade engineering. His background in digital signal processing and software engineering (MSc, Tampere University of Technology) underpins a rare combination of low-level optimization and system-level product delivery. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex imaging theory into fast, deployable code that runs on diverse embedded platforms.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Excellent, Master of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Excellent at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
English, Finnish, Swedish
Github Skills (10)
steamvr10
sdk10
openvr10
kinect10
azure-kinect10
depth-camera10
windows7
linux7
azure7
cross-platform6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 day
windowslinuxkinectsdkopenvr
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