Markku Kero
Founder, Director at Emerge Trainings
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolMarkku Kero is a serial entrepreneur and founder with over two decades of hands-on programming and 11 years of formal tech leadership experience, specializing in system modernization, automation and AI-driven software development. He leads Eqela and Job and Esther Technologies, helping enterprises transform legacy systems to cloud, container and edge-native platforms while building source-code-level, runtime-agnostic automation tools. A prolific builder, he created a programming language and compiler (Sling), a cross-platform API (Jkop) and an open-source VM (SushiVM), and has driven multi-device OS and telecom messaging products to market. He couples deep technical craftsmanship—code and security reviews, architecture design—with global training initiatives through Emerge Trainings, having trained thousands across industries. Based in Helsinki, he blends entrepreneurial grit with practical recovery of failing projects for clients from startups to large enterprises, and quietly sustains multiple active projects on GitHub focused on transforming software.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematical Information Technology, Mathematical Information Technology at University of Jyväskylä
English, Finnish, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
kotlin10
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
null-safety10
java10
lua10
sling10
android10
swift10
csharp10
kotlin-android10
typescript9
virtual-machine9
browser9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eqela/samples
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Sample programs from Eqela
Contributions:38 commits, 25 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 11 months
javaprograms
eqela/jkop
Dec 2016 - Jul 2022
A universal software development framework
Contributions:2 releases, 760 commits, 748 PRs in 5 years 8 months
luaobjective-cjavascriptframeworkandroid
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