Pekka Ahtonen
Member Of Technical Staff at NestAI
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPekka Ahtonen is a pragmatic data scientist and software engineer with two decades of experience translating physical-world problems into high-impact AI and engineering solutions across medical, space, maritime, and financial domains. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at NestAI, he blends hands-on ML and systems work—from real-time telemetry pipelines and embedded sensor fusion to packaging HPC-ready bioinformatics stacks that produced 10–100x R&D speedups. Notable past work includes developing novel sensor-analysis algorithms for wing-masted catamarans at SoftBank Team Japan during the 35th America’s Cup and building explainable deep-learning models for retinal imaging. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and delivering production-grade systems, he pairs an Aalto M.Sc. with practical expertise in Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes and embedded C++. An amateur athlete and sailor, Pekka often applies lessons from competitive sport and sailing to design resilient, performance-oriented systems.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Information Technology, M.Sc. Information Technology at Aalto UniversityDeep Learning Nanodegree Machine Learning, Deep Learning Nanodegree Machine Learning at Udacity
English, Swedish, Spanish, French, Finnish
Github Skills (38)
docker-run10
notebook10
docker10
jupyterhub10
python10
jupyter10
ipython10
jupyterlab10
binder10
jupyter-notebook10
stratum10
miner9
convolutional-neural-networks8
ethereum7
opencl7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ahtonen/ethminer
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
cudagpuethereumethereum-minerstratum
ahtonen/ruuvitag
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Collect data from a ruuvitag BLE sensor and chart it in a dashboard
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year
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