Jaakko Ahola
Senior Data Scientist
Pargas, Southwest Finland, Finland
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Top SchoolJaakko Ahola is a Senior Data Scientist and mathematician with a PhD and nine years of experience turning complex business problems into practical AI, optimisation and simulation solutions across energy, maritime, space, aviation, logistics and bioinformatics. He has built end-to-end ML systems—from forecasting Finland’s hourly electricity prices using weather and grid data to developing cloud-native datalake pipelines with Spark, Docker, Kubernetes and Snowflake—and has run large-scale scientific simulations on Cray supercomputers. Comfortable both in research (multiple peer-reviewed publications on cloud processes) and production engineering, he blends Fortran and high-performance computing with modern Python ML stacks (PyTorch, scikit-learn) and Azure services. Jaakko enjoys creating tangible impact—optimising fleet routing or maximising spacecraft payload value—and is enthusiastic about leading teams, mentoring colleagues, and applying social skills where math and code alone don’t suffice.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics at Turun yliopisto - University of TurkuMaster of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics, Grade of the thesis: laudatur; Average grade of courses: 4/5., Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics, Grade of the thesis: laudatur; Average grade of courses: 4/5. at Turun yliopisto
Finnish, English, Swedish, French, Hebrew
Github Skills (36)
command-line-interface9
azure-cli9
storage9
amazon-s39
azure8
cli8
k8s8
simulation8
kubernetes7
sdk7
micromamba7
command-line7
object-storage7
go7
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JaakkoAhola/LES-emulator-01prepros
Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
JaakkoAhola/DesignExperiments
Nov 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:123 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 1 year 10 months
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