Mikko Aalto
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Nitor
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMikko Aalto is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Helsinki with 13 years of hands-on experience across IT operations, data management and production automation. He has progressed from calldesk operator to leadership roles at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, where he led 24/7 operations and managed data-intensive automated systems, and later built containerized solutions at ECMWF. At Nitor he moved from Senior Support Engineer to Senior SRE, combining deep operational experience with modern cloud-native practices. Mikko’s background in telecommunications and long tenure in meteorological institutions gives him uncommon expertise in reliable, mission-critical data pipelines and observability for scientific infrastructure. He brings a practical leadership style that pairs incident-runbook discipline with pragmatic automation to reduce toil and improve uptime.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Telecommunications, B.Sc., Telecommunications at Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia
Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Macedonian
Github Skills (2)
post-processing9
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aaltomo/aaltomo.github.io
Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
aaltomo/resolve_bufr_sequence
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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