Mikael Nousiainen
Software Engineer at NorthBase
Hämeenlinna sub-region, Kanta-Häme, Finland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMikael Nousiainen is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure, now focused on RF-related software and embedded systems. He has a strong Java/Kotlin background with production experience in search, messaging, and observability technologies (Solr/Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis) and operational tooling on Kubernetes and AWS. Mikael has transitioned from senior roles at Help Scout and Kauppalehti to hands-on consulting and product work at RF-shamaanit Oy and NorthBase, combining software craftsmanship with RF electronics expertise. An active amateur radio operator (OH3BHX, OG7J) and board member of the Finnish Amateur Radio League, he brings practical RF knowledge to software problems—authoring projects like WebRadioControl that bridge embedded firmware and web control. He pairs academic foundations from Aalto University with a history of teaching and course development, making him as comfortable mentoring teams as shipping production code.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Technology, Computer Science, Master of Science in Technology, Computer Science at Aalto University
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (102)
echo10
gps10
websocket10
cffi10
gps-tracker10
rtl-sdr10
satellite10
altitude10
middleware10
balloon10
morse10
janus10
ssa10
control-library10
webrtc10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikaelnousiainen/janus-gateway
Oct 2017 - Jun 2022
Janus WebRTC Gateway
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
janus-webrtc-gatewayjanuswebrtcgateway
mikaelnousiainen/RS41ng
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Custom firmware for Vaisala RS41 and Graw DFM-17 radiosondes with support for amateur radio use. Ideal for tracking high-altitude balloons. Supported modes include APRS, Horus 4FSK mode, CATS, morse code (CW) and additional digital modes like WSPR and FT8 via Si5351.
Contributions:31 reviews, 41 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 4 months
amateur-radiohorusmodessi5351altitude
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.