Matti Airas
Founder at Hat Labs
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMatti Airas is a founder and embedded systems entrepreneur with 17 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently running Hat Labs Ltd to deliver open marine electronics, embedded software and consulting. He combines deep domain expertise in NMEA 2000/CAN bus systems and marine hardware with strong software skills in Python, C/C++ and Rust, plus cloud-native deployment (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). His background includes building routing and optimization systems for ships and waste collection, reflecting a knack for algorithm development, constrained pathfinding and performance optimization. A Doctorate in speech audio signal processing underpins his strengths in DSP and scientific software, bringing rigorous research methods to product engineering. Matti has led teams and projects at companies from Nokia to Zalando, and uniquely pairs hands-on microcontroller and hardware design experience with large-scale software architecture.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. Tech (EE) Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Dr. Tech (EE) Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, Finnish, Swedish, German
Github Skills (200)
alien10
python10
automation10
arduino-library10
esp3210
home-assistant10
hikvision10
ais10
mqtt10
nmea10
stm32cube10
cmsis10
pong10
sensor10
home-automation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SensESP/OneWire
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
OneWire add-on sensor library for SensESP
Contributions:4 releases, 16 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 1 month
mlsmorse-codesensoronewirebarrage
hatlabs/sh-esp32
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
SH-ESP32 project website
Contributions:3 reviews, 78 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 10 months
project-websitespiffsnimbleesp32
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