Esa Junttila
Lead Risk Expert at Nordea
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolEsa Junttila is a Lead Risk Expert and quantitative leader with 13 years of experience applying computer science, mathematics, and finance to solve complex market, valuation, and capital problems. He has built and led cross-functional expert teams to automate valuation, ICAAP and economic capital processes, delivering measurable improvements such as a 70% AVA capital adequacy gain and pioneering cloud-based solutions. Equally comfortable writing production pricing systems for exotic derivatives as designing ML-driven data pipelines, Esa bridges Front Office, Risk, Finance and regulators (ECB, FIN-FSA) to turn rigorous models into actionable business decisions. He combines a PhD in Computer Science and academic publishing with hands-on skills in Java, Python, C++, SQL and cloud platforms, enabling both high-performance numerical computing and scalable ETL architectures. Known for thriving in complexity, he routinely translates ambiguous, high-stakes problems into automated, auditable processes and clear guidance for senior management and boards.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Business, Bachelor's Degree Business at Aalto UniversityPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of HelsinkiSecondary Upper School Matriculation examination (Finnish), Secondary Upper School Matriculation examination (Finnish) at Pohjois-Helsingin lukio
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dresa/predict-binary-seq
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
dresa/photo-quality
Jul 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:119 commits, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
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