José Pekkarinen
Hands-on Cofounder - CTO at Foxhound Ltd.
Tampere Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Pekkarinen is a hands-on CTO and Linux engineer with over a decade of experience building secure, embedded and cloud systems—ranging from kernel development and hardened distributions to OpenStack and lightweight on-device AI. He co-founded AI Scholar to deliver privacy-preserving local ML for neurodivergent learners while running consulting work that maintains hardened kernels across i.MX8, RPi4, RISC‑V and x86 platforms. A pragmatic upstream contributor, José has worked on Linux kernel fixes, Buildroot and OpenWRT/OpenAOSP integrations, and pragmatic security features like SELinux for compartmentalized builds. Comfortable across C/C++, Python and systems debugging, he pairs low-level expertise with a product-focused mindset and a track record of shipping maintainable, auditable solutions for constrained hardware environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
Spanish, English, Finnish
Github Skills (6)
buildroot10
package-management10
embedded-linux10
networking9
c176
c116
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Pekkari/foxiverlay
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 66 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 5 months
Pekkari/juju
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
juju is devops distilled
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
devopsmanjaroself-hostinglinuxjuju
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