Summary
Pekka Honkanen is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience delivering low-level, high-assurance software for telecom, embedded and security products. He excels at drivers, boot loaders, BSPs and platform support for RTOS and Linux/BSD environments, producing pragmatic, maintainable and fault-tolerant solutions in C and assembly. Pekka has led secure communications and virtualization projects for defense and telecom vendors, and his background includes silicon crypto firmware, HA IP OS features and cloud infrastructure work. Known for deep debugging and problem-solving skills, he combines hands-on coding with system architecture thinking across hardware-software boundaries. Based in Helsinki, he brings a rare blend of telecommunications engineering roots and practical experience hardening systems for production in demanding environments.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at Helsinki Institute Of Technology
Finnish, English