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 (35)
connman10
dbus10
sailfishos10
iptables9
plugin8
kernel6
gsm6
umts6
initrd6
browser6
obs6
ipc6
javascript6
sarif5
wpa-supplicant5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LaakkonenJussi/iprat
Sep 2021 - Sep 2025
Information Privacy Risk Assessment Tool
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
privacysecurityriskrisk-assessmentassessment-tool
LaakkonenJussi/ofono
Dec 2021 - Aug 2025
Sailfish OS fork of https://01.org/ofono
Contributions:45 pushes, 5 branches, 19 tags in 3 years 8 months
sailfishsailfish-os
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