Otso Rasimus
Head Of AI at Rocket Lab
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolOtso Rasimus is a founder-turned-executive and software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native ML infrastructure, most notably founding Valohai and growing it into a leading MLOps platform. Currently Head of AI at Rocket Lab after serving as a software team lead, he blends hands-on full-stack and DevOps expertise with product leadership across multiple cloud providers. He has shipped end-to-end solutions, automated deployments, and led teams from startup to market traction across Paris, Turku and Auckland. Deep interests in AI, space, games, nutrition and education inform a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Outside engineering he volunteers in sea-air rescue, ice swims, sails and reads extensively—a pattern that reflects risk tolerance, curiosity and service.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology and Media, Information Technology and Media at Kupittaan lukioBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Turun yliopisto - University of TurkuBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Finnish, German, Swedish, Japanese
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Github Skills (37)
machine-learning9
api9
parser8
tensorflow8
quest8
gate7
command-line7
yaml7
deep-learning7
depth6
cli6
customisation6
mnist6
starcraft6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
valohai/aws-hybrid-workers-cloudformation
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Instructions and a CloudFormation template for easy setup of AWS Private Workers
Contributions:7 reviews, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
instructionseasy-setupworkersawscloudformation-template
orasimus/tensorflow-example
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 3 years
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