Mika Tervonen
Principal Software Engineer at Alif Semiconductor
Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
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Top SchoolMika Tervonen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Oulu with over two decades of hands-on experience building and leading development of embedded network stacks and mesh networking standards. He has driven technical leadership and architecture for Thread and Wi-SUN implementations across Arm, Pelion, Nordic Semiconductor and Alif, and has deep protocol expertise spanning IPv6, 6LoWPAN, RPL, DTLS and upper-layer protocols like SIP/IMS and HTTP/TLS. Mika has contributed to standardization, certification harnesses and test plans—turning specifications into validated reference implementations used in interoperability events. Comfortable in multinational, multi-site teams, he blends a developer’s curiosity with system-level thinking to make robust, certifiable networking products. A lesser-known strength is his track record of building certification tooling and PoC stacks that bridge the gap between specification and deployable firmware.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer engineering, B.Sc., Computer engineering at Raahe institute of computer engineering.
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Github Skills (32)
mbed10
linux10
border10
kernel10
internet10
arm10
operating-system10
thread9
betting8
router8
internet-of-things8
mesh8
6lowpan7
azerothcore7
trace6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mikter/mbed-os
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
kernelmbed-osoperating-systemlinuxmbed
mikter/sdk-alif
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Alif Semiconductor Zephyr Software Development Kit (SDK)
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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