Mikko Salama
Lead ML Engineer at Siili Solutions
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolMikko Salama is a Lead ML Engineer based in Espoo with 13 years of experience building applied machine learning and data-driven systems across industry and research. Trained at Aalto-yliopisto (with time at Tohoku University), he blends strong research rigour with practical engineering skills in Python, CAD, and industrial systems. His career spans roles from data scientist and AI engineer to senior IoT & data engineering, now leading ML efforts at Siili Solutions after hands-on product work at companies like Brightly and Aiforsite. He brings a rare combination of academic research experience at the National Land Survey of Finland and startup/consulting fluency, enabling him to translate novel algorithms into robust production pipelines. An analytically minded problem-solver, he also has nontraditional experience as a professional poker player and consultant on graph algorithms and NLP, which sharpen his probabilistic thinking and decision-making under uncertainty.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Tohoku UniversityMaster's degree and Bachelor's degree, Automation and Systems Technology, Master's degree and Bachelor's degree, Automation and Systems Technology at Aalto-yliopisto
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Github contributions (4)
salkkuman/shooter
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:39 commits in 10 days
salkkuman/GitHubApiDemo
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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