Kimmo Suominen
Managing Partner, Founder at The NetBSD Foundation
Ylivieska, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
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Top SchoolKimmo Suominen is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 27 years of experience building resilient infrastructure for trading, large-scale Internet services, and web/mobile content platforms. As Managing Partner of Global Wire and a long-time NetBSD developer, he blends hands-on systems engineering with strategic leadership across networking, OS, and database domains. His career includes senior roles at Two Sigma, Commerzbank and D. E. Shaw where he redesigned core trading systems, implemented dynamic routing and centralized monitoring to improve reliability and performance. A lifelong Unix enthusiast who now prefers Macs, he is an active open-source contributor who frequently dives into other people’s code to solve hard problems. Known for pragmatic, security-conscious designs, he has repeatedly reduced operational cost and complexity while enabling transparent failover and high availability. Based in Ylivieska, Finland, he pairs deep technical fluency with clear communication and team-building skills.
27 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of DelawareLappeenranta University of Technology
English, Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (130)
libgit210
nginx-conf10
bug-tracker10
bitbake10
command-line-interface10
websocket10
security10
uptime-monitoring10
monitoring10
linux10
cvs10
starlark10
mailing10
keychain10
webapp10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tcsh-org/www
May 2019 - May 2022
Website
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 3 years
suominen/macports-gw
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 4 pushes in 9 years 1 month
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