Christian Mäkelä
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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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.
7 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 (15)
sdk10
usermode10
kinect10
azure-kinect10
linux8
windows8
python8
gpu7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
numpy5
neural-network5
gpu-acceleration3
tensor3
autograd2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
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
azure-kinectlinuxusermodewindowskinect
pytorch/pytorch
Nov 2025 - Nov 2025
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
gpu-accelerationneural-networkpythonautogradgpu
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