Henri Lunnikivi
PHD Researcher at Tampere University
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolHenri Lunnikivi is a systems-focused PhD researcher and firmware engineer with a decade of experience building embedded real-time systems, SoC designs, and HW/SW co-design, currently based at Tampere University. Deeply involved with Rust-adjacent research since 2015, he blends academic rigor with weekly hands-on builds to keep prototypes grounded in practice. His background spans GPU/NN programming in C and Rust, entrepreneurial product work (Unity, C# and REST), and early game prototyping at Rovio and Nokia, giving him a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and product-minded engineering. Known in his circles as a “Rust evangelist” and practical implementer, he gravitates toward projects where correctness, performance, and embedded constraints meet.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Maths, Programming, High School Diploma, Maths, Programming at Päivölä School of MathematicsInformation and Communications Technology / Software Engineering / Software Production, Information and Communications Technology / Software Engineering / Software Production at Tampere University of Technology
Finnish, English, Swedish, French, Russian, Estonian
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Github Skills (111)
low-level10
clippy10
risc10
linter10
rust-language10
rust-lang10
compiler10
rust10
cookbook10
lang10
lint10
crate10
standard-library10
unsafe9
code-generator9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hegza/riscv
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Low level access to RISC-V processors
Contributions:84 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 1 month
hegza/rust-clippy
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code
Contributions:36 pushes in 1 year
linterlintrustmistakeslints
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