Summary
Mika Saarinen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sweden with 14 years of professional experience and a deep background in embedded and real-time systems. His career spans roles at companies like Qlik, Robert Bosch, Axis Communications and Volvo Cars, with hands-on work in embedded Linux, in-car networking, performance tuning and object-oriented systems design. He thrives on exploring new technical ground—combining disciplined real-time thinking from his M.Sc. in Computer Systems Design with pragmatic maintenance and feature delivery in complex products. Mika is particularly strong at bridging low-level hardware control and higher-level protocol/architecture concerns, often turning feasibility checks and command parsing into reliable device functionality. Colleagues rely on him for steady, methodical problem solving and for mentoring teams through challenging integration and performance problems.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc.C.Sc & E Computer Science & Engineering Real-time systems and Computer Systems Design, M.Sc.C.Sc & E Computer Science & Engineering Real-time systems and Computer Systems Design at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Swedish, Finnish, English