Ilpo Loikkanen
Independent Software Consultant at Insinööritoimisto Loikkanen Oy
Jyväskylä, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolIlpo Loikkanen is an independent software consultant and embedded systems engineer with eight years of hands-on experience spanning DevOps, Kubernetes, hardware prototyping, PCB design and wireless technologies. He co-founded product and tool ventures—Haksi Solutions (embedded electronics) and LuovAI (AI-powered lesson tools for teachers)—bringing a maker’s mindset to commercial product development and shutdown-aware learnings. Comfortable across firmware, cloud-native tooling and shop-floor electronics, Ilpo blends low-level hardware work with containerized deployment practices to deliver end-to-end solutions. His background includes consumer electronics repair, lecturing on game development, and international studies in software engineering, reflecting both practical tinkering and formal training. Based in Jyväskylä, Finland, he often engineers at the intersection of embedded hardware and DevOps, favoring pragmatic prototypes that scale into maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Ajou UniversityVocational upper qualification , Information and Communications Technology, Vocational upper qualification , Information and Communications Technology at Savon ammattiopistoBachelor's degree, Information and Communication Technologies, Bachelor's degree, Information and Communication Technologies at JAMK University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (32)
usb5
firmware4
keyboard4
avr3
piano3
google-play3
arm3
chromecast3
music3
spotify3
player3
atmel3
nrf528402
dfu2
youtube2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
osmakari/zmk
May 2022 - Jan 2023
ZMK Firmware Repository
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 33 pushes in 7 months
zmkfirmware
ilp0/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
nrf52nrf52840dfuusbble
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