Otso Björklund
Senior Algorithm Developer at RELEX Solutions
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolOtso Björklund is a Senior Algorithm Developer with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production software, currently building optimisation algorithms for supply chains at RELEX Solutions. He combines a rare mix of computational musicology (MA), computer science (MSc, PhD candidate) and industrial algorithm engineering, researching interpretable machine learning methods for pattern discovery and search in music. Otso has shipped high-performance geometric and robotics algorithms in production, led technical projects, and implemented data pipelines and on‑prem Airflow deployments. Comfortable from mathematical proofs to agile delivery, he excels at turning theoretical methods into scalable, maintainable code. Based in Helsinki, he brings a practical curiosity—applying insights from music information retrieval to real-world optimisation and sensing problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English
Github Skills (11)
music10
music-notation10
java10
nmf8
sympy7
wolfram-language7
electrophysiology5
musicxml1
python1
javascript1
notation1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
otsob/wmn4j
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
Java library for handling western music notation with a focus on computational music analysis.
Contributions:877 commits, 267 PRs, 564 pushes in 6 years 6 months
javacomputational-musicologymusicmusic-notationmusicology
otsob/mncmd
May 2022 - Jul 2025
Command line app for extracting information from music notation files
Contributions:29 PRs, 63 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years 2 months
command-line-apppythonmusic-notationnotationmusic
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