Kari Lavikka
Researcher (BSc, MSc, And PhD Student) at University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKari Lavikka is a seasoned software engineer and researcher with 27 years of experience who now develops interactive data-visualization methods for cancer genomics and tumor evolution as a PhD student at the University of Helsinki. He combines deep backend architecture and database expertise—shaped by founding and scaling IRC-Galleria and designing the ProSales CRM—with current bioinformatics, data wrangling, and visualization work in the Hautaniemi lab. Kari’s career spans low-level performance engineering, large-scale web systems delivering billions of pages, native Android development, and modern Java EE architectures, giving him a rare blend of systems-level pragmatism and scientific rigor. Based in Helsinki, he bridges academic research and production-grade software, turning complex genomic data into actionable visual tools.
27 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Kaitaan LukioKaitaan KouluMSc, Data Science, MSc, Data Science at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (77)
vega10
cancer-genomics10
gpu10
genomics-visualization10
plot10
data-visualization10
vega-lite10
webgl10
genome10
visual-analytics10
visualization10
grammar10
bioinformatics10
charts9
json-schema9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
genome-spy/genome-spy
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
A visualization grammar and GPU-accelerated toolkit for genomic data
Contributions:81 releases, 4 reviews, 1361 commits in 4 years 1 month
cohort-analysisbioinformaticsvisual-analyticscancer-genomicsgenome-visualization
tuner/awesome-genome-visualization
Feb 2020 - Aug 2024
A list of interesting genome browser or genome-browser-like implementations
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years 6 months
implementationsgenomegenome-browserbrowserinteresting
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