Jussi Laakkonen
Engineer, Middleware & GDPR Specialist at Jolla
Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJussi Laakkonen is an engineer specializing in communications middleware and GDPR compliance with eight years of hands-on experience building and hardening Sailfish OS networking stacks at Jolla. He focuses on ConnMan, VPNs, firewalls, iptables and multi-user support, shipping C/C++/Qt fixes and upstream patches while also touching kernel and Android adaptation. His background in network protocol design, full-stack web development and academic research informs a pragmatic approach to privacy: he led GDPR impact analyses and authored core documentation using a PhD-style methodology. Comfortable digging into corner-case bugs and writing complex unit tests, he combines deep Linux networking expertise with an appreciation for open-source community workflows. Based in Lappeenranta, Finland, he brings a rare blend of low-level systems craftsmanship and formal privacy risk assessment.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
secondary school graduate, secondary school graduate at Kontiolahden LukioD.Sc. (Tech.), Information Technology, D.Sc. (Tech.), Information Technology at Lappeenranta University of TechnologyM.Sc., Information Technology, Communications software, M.Sc., Information Technology, Communications software at LUT University
Finnish, English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (41)
controlling10
dbus10
plugin9
mer9
iptables9
sailfishos9
api8
browser8
binder8
javascript7
bus7
gsm6
nodejs5
kernel5
umts5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sailfishos/nemo-qml-plugin-connectivity
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 10 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 4 months
sailfishos/wpa_supplicant
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:29 reviews, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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