Jerry Pussinen is a T-shaped engineering leader and hands-on Python expert with eight years of experience building scalable systems and mentoring teams, now serving as CTO of Focus Tiger and co-organizing Helsinki Python meetups. He has driven technical leadership and recruitment at Wolt, progressing from software engineer to staff engineer and competence lead, and is comfortable toggling between big-picture architecture and low-level code. His open-source work includes back-end contributions to woltapp/blurhash integrating native image-writing (stb_image_write), revealing a willingness to dive into C interop for practical tooling. He also maintains Python teaching materials and Jupyter notebooks, reflecting a strong commitment to developer education and onboarding. Based in Helsinki and currently on a career break, he’s open to conversations with early-stage startups in Finland.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Tech.), Intelligent products, Master of Science (Tech.), Intelligent products at Aalto University
Contributions:1 review, 105 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jerry's commits indicate a focus on developing Python code, specifically within the context of Jupyter notebooks designed for teaching and learning Python 3. Their contributions involve removing unused cells, adding missing syntax (colons), adding support for virtual environment materials, and integrating examples of using standard libraries for working with timezones, which points towards back-end development activities, likely to develop supporting learning materials. The user's work suggests an effort to refine and expand the Python 3 learning resources, indicating a role focused on content development related to Python programming.
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 20 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jerry's primary contribution involved integrating the `stb_image_write` library, which is used for writing various image formats. The commits show that the user was responsible for incorporating this library into the project's codebase and ensuring it functions correctly. The user interacted with C code related to image writing and potentially utilized the library to support different image file formats.
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Jerry Pussinen - Chief Technology Officer at Focus Tiger