Summary
Niko Nyrhilä is a Senior AI Performance Engineer with 11 years of experience blending computer vision, machine learning, and high-performance computing to deliver production-ready AI systems. Currently optimizing AI workloads on AMD hardware at Silo AI, he has a strong track record building end-to-end data pipelines, real-time model APIs, and horizontally scalable storage during a decade at Analyse². His toolbox spans CUDA, TensorFlow, Spark, AWS, Snowflake, Kubernetes and pragmatic functional programming—he even implemented an in-memory time-series database in Clojure that yielded 30x faster lookups for certain workloads. Early work includes real-time multi-threaded C++/CUDA vision systems from his MSc thesis, and he maintains active personal and open-source projects demonstrating deep systems and applied-math interests. Based in Espoo, Finland, Niko combines research-grade engineering with practical product delivery and a knack for squeezing performance from both hardware and software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Top grade for the Master's Thesis., Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Top grade for the Master's Thesis. at Aalto-yliopisto
English, Finnish, Japanese, Swedish