Mikael Vaaltola
Software Engineer at Mapbox
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Vaaltola is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in geospatial systems, currently contributing at Mapbox after senior roles at Vaisala and Gispo. He combines deep hands-on expertise with QGIS, PostGIS and GeoServer with practical DevOps and cloud deployment skills, having built national aerial image registries and productionized the Vaisala RoadAI application. His master's work produced an automated Sentinel-2 pipeline to generate cloudless mosaics for the UN, reflecting a strong foundation in remote sensing and reproducible data pipelines. Comfortable across Linux and multiple cloud platforms, he focuses on applying modern software practices to spatial problems and continuously learning new tools. A multilingual thinker based in Helsinki, he also brings an unusual blend of GIS research experience and pragmatic product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Geoinformatics, Master of Science - MS Geoinformatics at Aalto UniversityMaster of Science - MS Geoinformatics, Master of Science - MS Geoinformatics at Politecnico di Milano
English, Finnish, Swedish, German, Italian
Github Skills (69)
nls10
qgis9
cluster-computing9
cli9
command-line9
geopackage9
gis9
syntax-highlighting9
rust8
pylance8
python-server8
language-server-protocol8
language-server8
geographical-information-system8
spatial-analysis8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mvaaltola/dotfiles
Dec 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:172 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
GispoCoding/NLSgpkgloader
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
QGIS3 plugin to download Maastotietokanta (MTK) data from the Finnish NLS and write it to a GeoPackage. Developed by Gispo Ltd.
Contributions:1 review, 114 commits, 22 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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