Mikko Jaakkola
Sr. Director, Product Management at Veera
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMikko Jaakkola is a senior product leader with over a decade of experience building wireless, IoT, and connectivity solutions across startups and global companies. Currently Sr. Director of Product Management at Synaptics, he combines hands-on system architecture with roadmap and go-to-market leadership for wireless-connected products. His background spans embedded firmware to cloud analytics and AI, having led product, software and platform transformations at Qualcomm, Inseego, Nokia and multiple startups. He has a track record of scaling teams and processes—reducing time-to-market and operational cost through automation, agile practices and partner enablement. Equally comfortable in C/C++ and high-level cloud/analytics stacks, he advises startups on production scaling and full-stack IoT architecture. Based in San Diego, he often bridges device-level engineering with data-driven product decisions that turn prototypes into commercial systems.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science SW, MSc Computer Science SW at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
English, Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mjaakkol/sgp40-rs
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Rust embedded-hal based device driver for Sensirion Sgp40 VOC sensor
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 4 PRs in 4 years 1 month
sgp40sensirionrustembedded-rustvoc
mjaakkol/sgpc3-rs
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Sensirion sgpc3 rust driver
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
rustrust-driversensirion
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