Mikko Saarinki
Team Lead - Flight Software at ICEYE
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMikko Saarinki is a pragmatic software leader and Team Lead for Flight Software with 12 years of experience building cross-platform systems, embedded firmware, and CI/DevOps toolchains. He combines hands-on C++, Swift/SwiftUI and Qt/QML development with robust API design and practical automation (Jenkins, TeamCity, Python, bash) to consistently deliver customer-facing products. His background spans wearable middleware, cloud gaming, and satellite flight software, reflecting an ability to move fluidly between embedded constraints and cloud/CI ecosystems. A longtime contributor to the open-source Surge synthesizer project, he brings deep DSP and audio UI experience that informs efficient, low-level problem solving. Known as a “DevOps person by accident,” Mikko focuses on shipping reliable software regardless of process—Kanban, Scrum, or otherwise—while mentoring teams and improving delivery pipelines. Based in Helsinki, he pairs a music-technology degree with engineering rigor, often finding elegant fixes to tricky platform and build issues.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ylioppilastutkinto, Ylioppilastutkinto at Joensuun Lyseon LukioBachelor's Degree Music Technology (honours), Bachelor's Degree Music Technology (honours) at The University of HuddersfieldHigh School, High School at Santa Rosa High School
English, Finnish, Swedish, German
Github Skills (7)
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debug10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
vst10
synthesizer9
user-interface9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
surge-synthesizer/surge
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Synthesizer plug-in (previously released as Vember Audio Surge)
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Mikko primarily contributed to bug fixes, especially related to undefined behavior in for-loops and window zoom/resize issues. They also addressed build warnings on Windows, which included integrating updated VSTGUI and fixing other compiler warnings. Further contributions involved implementing features related to VST3 compatibility, including zoom handling and scaling within the GUI, closing open issues related to zoom.
synthesizermidiaudioplug-inreleased
Kingston1/surge
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Synthesizer plug-in (previously released as Vember Audio Surge)
Contributions:49 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 2 months
synthesizermidiplug-inaudioreleased
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