Mikko Korpela
Founding Engineer at Adeu
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMikko Korpela is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience building product-focused systems across startups and established companies from Helsinki. He combines deep technical breadth—from GIS and map-based frontends to ML-enabled document extraction and RAG chatbots—with hands-on prototyping that has produced OSS tools like llmstatemachine and contributions to ggmap. At Reaktor he led cross-disciplinary teams on everything from in-flight entertainment to space observation, and more recently drove ReMark and Sema4.ai Studio across globally distributed teams. Comfortable in both product and engineering roles, he blends recruitment and mentoring with pragmatic engineering to ship 0→1 features. A former Robot Framework core contributor and foundation board member, he brings long-standing open-source stewardship to commercial engineering.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. (Tech) Computer Science, M.Sc. (Tech) Computer Science at Aalto University
English, Finnish, Swedish
Github Skills (6)
data-visualizations10
mappings10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
ggplot10
r10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dkahle/ggmap
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
A package for plotting maps in R with ggplot2
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:30 commits, 17 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mikko primarily contributed to bug fixes and example code enhancements within the ggmap package. Their work involved correcting code related to file handling, improving the usability of the `gglocator` function, and updating documentation. They also addressed issues with map projections and adjusted examples to run correctly, indicating a focus on improving the user experience and code quality within the mapping package.
ggplotr
mvkorpel/dplR
Feb 2020 - Nov 2024
This is the dev site for the dplR package in R
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
r-packagerstatsdev
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