Markus Kovero
Founder at RASE Engineering Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Kovero is a founder and embedded systems engineer with nine years of formal experience and two decades of deep infrastructure work, focused on high-performance storage, low-latency networking and virtualization. He built and led teams at UpCloud to design globally rolled-out, high-availability storage and network architectures and now runs RASE Engineering designing hard-realtime embedded systems for automotive and racing. Comfortable from rack-bolt hardware to firmware, he blends C/C++/RTOS expertise on STM32/ESP32 with embedded Linux, lightweight crypto and secure low-latency architectures. An early IPv6 advocate since 2003, Markus has repeatedly turned OSS into production-grade solutions at multi-petabyte scale and optimized infrastructure for minimal end-user impact. Outside pure engineering he’s an electrician hobbyist, musician and “cat massagist,” reflecting a hands-on, curious maker mentality that fuels pragmatic creativity. He excels at turning messy legacy stacks into robust, observable platforms while keeping an eye for elegant, resource-constrained designs.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics and telecommunications, Electronics and telecommunications at LUKK
English
Github Skills (23)
displays10
controller10
lcd10
esp826610
transmission10
esp3210
wifi10
bugtracking10
monochrome9
freebsd9
openzfs9
linux9
arduino9
provisioning8
neopixel8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mkovero/7226ctrl
Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
controller for 722.6 automatic transmission
Contributions:287 commits, 2 PRs, 285 pushes in 3 years 10 months
controllertransmission
mkovero/ac
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 124 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
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