Miko Mynttinen
Member Of Technical Staff at Perplexity
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMiko Mynttinen is a Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of engineering experience building high-performance web browsers and graphics systems from the ground up. He began programming at age 10 and, after an early start at a startup, completed a CS degree to deepen his understanding of complex systems. Miko has driven performance wins across Mozilla, Mighty, Ray Browser, DuckDuckGo, and Perplexity by optimizing rendering pipelines, video paths, and display-list caching to deliver smoother scrolling, lower CPU usage, and reduced memory overhead. He’s an active contributor to Servo’s WebRender, improving GPU render efficiency and profiling, reflecting expertise in GPU-based renderers and low-level graphics engineering. Comfortable in both startup and large-team contexts, he combines hands-on systems work with a knack for teasing apart tricky platform-level bugs. Based in Berlin, he pairs deep technical curiosity with measurable product impact—e.g., implementing zero-copy rendering that materially boosted frame rates on high-resolution displays.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
webr10
rust10
render10
profiling10
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
servo/webrender
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
A GPU-based renderer for the web
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Miko's commits primarily focus on enhancing and optimizing the WebRender rendering engine, a GPU-based renderer. They contributed to features related to GPU debug markers, adding scene building time to the profiler, and refactoring display item caching. The user also worked on removing obsolete code and improving the efficiency of display list updates. These changes involved modifying core rendering components.
gpu
mikokm/Pathfinding
Oct 2015 - Sep 2022
Java implementations for A*, Dijkstra and Bellman-Ford
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 years 1 month
implementationsbellman-forddijkstrafordjava
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