Oskari Niskanen
Erityisasiantuntija, Sanakirjantoimittaja at Kotimaisten kielten keskus
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolOskari Niskanen is a linguist and language specialist with eight years of experience bridging academic research, digital learning development, and language documentation. As a Master of Arts focused on cognitive linguistics and syntax, he edited an award-winning thesis on Finnish pain verbs and now leads the Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish at the Institute for the Languages of Finland. He combines deep expertise in Finnish grammar and historical syntax with hands-on experience producing accessible subtitles, digital learning materials, and research data pipelines in collaboration with universities. Based in Helsinki, he also codes as an IT-interested developer with a hobbyist focus on hardware, robotics and IoT, which informs his pragmatic approach to digital text processing and tooling. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex linguistic structures into usable resources for both scholarly and public audiences.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Linguistics, Master's thesis: 5 (scale 1–5), Master of Arts - MA, Linguistics, Master's thesis: 5 (scale 1–5) at Turun yliopisto - University of TurkuOulun seudun ammattiopistoOulun aikuislukio
Finnish, Swedish, English, Estonian
Github Skills (21)
aide9
vuetify8
vue8
vue-component8
semantic8
javascript8
ui-components8
material-components7
ui-design7
typescript7
vuejs37
vue-material6
philosophy6
material-design6
knowledge-management5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OscarGTH/LotroBot
Apr 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
OscarGTH/Maplestory-Dojo-Bot
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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