Niilo Sirola
Principal Specialist at Exafore
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolNiilo Sirola is a Principal Specialist and industrial mathematician with over a decade of experience translating advanced mathematical methods into production-grade positioning and navigation systems. He has led R&D from academia to industry—publishing research, securing patents, and implementing software from Java EE to embedded C for multi-GNSS, UWB and BLE positioning. Niilo combines expertise in modeling, simulation, optimization and robust estimation with hands-on high-performance and parallel computing skills, routinely moving prototypes in Matlab into embedded products. Based in Tampere, Finland, he has steered public research projects and product development alike, often serving as the bridge between scientific rigor and practical systems integration. A subtle strength is his track record of turning theoretical algorithms into fielded receiver code and industrial IP, not just papers.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
Finnish, English, French, German, Swedish
Github Skills (28)
ipmi10
canopen10
buildroot9
distro9
armv89
musl9
linux-shell9
receiver9
tablet9
chroot9
c-library8
swift8
garmin8
pwntools8
solace8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nsirola/libswiftnav
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 22 days
gnssportablec-library
nsirola/piksi_tools
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
gnssgnss-receiverpiksireceiver
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