Marko Kohtala
CEO, Founder at Ohjelmistokonsultointi Kohtala Oy
Savonlinna, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolMarko Kohtala is a seasoned embedded software engineer and founder with 26 years of experience turning hardware ideas into shipped products, spanning schematics to cloud and services. As CEO of his consultancy he leads Yocto/Buildroot-based Linux BSPs, kernel device tree and driver work, GStreamer multimedia pipelines and full CI/DevOps stacks (Docker, Jenkins, GitHub CI, Ansible, Helm). He has a strong track record in product development and R&D leadership at Nokia and Control Express, delivering everything from microcontroller firmware and VHDL CAN hubs to TCP/IP load balancers and secure OTA flows. An early and ongoing open-source contributor since the mid-90s, he improved camera support in the Aravis GStreamer plugin—illustrating a practical focus on real-world interoperability. MSc in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology and based in Savonlinna, Finland, he combines deep low-level expertise with pragmatic process and product thinking.
26 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSC, Computer Science, MSC, Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanMatricular Examination, Upper Secondary School, Matricular Examination, Upper Secondary School at Korson Lukio
English, Swedish, German, Finnish
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Github Skills (17)
gobject10
gstreamer10
c1110
c1710
camera10
glib9
gtk8
360-video7
mesonbuild7
test-suite6
react6
nodejs6
dockerfile6
ansible6
docker6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
AravisProject/aravis
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
A vision library for genicam based cameras
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marko primarily contributed to the `gst-aravis` GStreamer plugin, focusing on camera interaction and configuration. They implemented features such as setting pixel formats, packet delays, and auto gain/exposure control. The user also addressed several bugs, including fixing issues with camera initialization and handling errors. Their contributions improved the plugin's functionality and reliability for GenICam-based cameras within a GStreamer pipeline.
cameravideomesongigegobject-introspection
okoko/qpid-cpp-docker
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Apache Qpid C++ Broker Docker image
Contributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 1 month
docker-imagebrokerdockerapacheqpid
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