Marko Havu
Senior Hardware Designer at Gofore
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolMarko Havu is a senior hardware designer and R&D entrepreneur with over two decades of life-sciences experience and 11 years focused in advanced hardware development. He has led and managed complex medical device and defense projects involving high-speed interfaces such as 10GbE, PCIe and USB-C, and played a key role in commercialising hybrid MEG-MRI technology at Aalto University. Equally comfortable in software, firmware and hardware, he contributes backend work to emulator projects like box64 and develops biosignal analysis tools in C, Python and Objective-C. As founder of Mediavec and partner in a real estate venture, he combines technical depth with commercial acumen and a long track record of securing and delivering funded research. A seasoned coach and lecturer with 30 years’ mentoring experience, he brings an educator’s mindset to cross-disciplinary teams and productisation. Based in Espoo, Finland, he blends “nerd-jock” hands-on tinkering—3D printing, CNC and craftsmanship—with rigorous engineering and project leadership.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Aalto UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanM.Sc., Biomechanics, M.Sc., Biomechanics at University of Jyväskylä
Finnish, English, Swedish, Chinese, Russian
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
arm10
linux10
c1110
emulation10
device-emulation10
x86-6410
ctypes6
fft6
mathlink6
python6
command-line6
cocoa6
wolfram-mathematica6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ptitSeb/box64
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64, RV64 and LoongArch Linux devices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Marko primarily focused on adding and modifying wrapper functions within the Box64 emulator, specifically related to the libc and libx11 libraries. Their contributions included implementing new functions and harmonizing existing function signatures. They also added new wrappings for GTK and GObject libraries, enhancing the project's capabilities.
emulatoruserspacedynarecjitlinux
mhavu/OpenSALTO
Jan 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:82 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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