Juha Jäykkä
Principal Software Engineer at AMD
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJuha Jäykkä is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and optimising high-performance computing platforms for industry and research, currently driving work at AMD. His career spans leading HPC teams at the University of Cambridge, developing system software and open-source simulators at Arm, and delivering platform and performance wins across healthcare, geoscience and enterprise customers. Juha combines deep theoretical training (PhD in theoretical physics) with hands-on expertise in performance tuning, simulation (gem5 stewardship), and end-to-end HPC service delivery, including a 100× speedup on a Planck data pipeline. He’s comfortable coordinating across vendors and research groups—having run demonstrations with Intel and earned placements on technical steering committees—while mentoring teams and managing outsourced contributions. Colleagues know him for tackling thorny optimisation problems and turning cutting-edge hardware into usable, measurable performance improvements.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Theoretical physics, PhD, Theoretical physics at Turun yliopisto
English, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish, Latin
Github Skills (29)
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android7
userspace7
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petsc6
python6
kernel5
fm-radio5
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bootloader5
pandora4
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ipv63
gpu3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
COSMOS-CTC-Cambridge/topics-python-in-research
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year
COSMOS-CTC-Cambridge/damtp-research-programming
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:117 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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