Pekka Sarkola
Partner at Poscon Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPekka Sarkola is a seasoned GIS professional and entrepreneur with over two decades in geospatial systems and 12 years of formal experience leading companies and projects across Finland. As founder and chairman of Gispo and partner at Gispo Sverige, he combines hands-on technical roots—dating back to manual map digitizing and early web map development at the National Land Survey—with strategic roles in product development, sales, and company management. He champions open source geospatial tools and open data as President of OSGeo Suomi, bringing practical expertise in database and architecture design, location-based solutions, and project delivery. Known in the Finnish GIS community, he balances academic engagement (guest lecturing at Aalto) with customer-facing consulting, helping organizations turn spatial data into business value. A subtle throughline in his career is translating legacy GIS workflows into modern, open ecosystems that scale beyond single vendors.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatics at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, French, Finnish
Github Skills (104)
wps10
gdal10
geojson10
data-management10
spatial10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
qgis10
tms10
tomcat10
pgmodeler10
entity-relationship-diagram10
rasterio10
maps10
translator10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AvoinPaikkatieto/OpenGeoDataEtiquette
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 7 months
yttpython
AvoinPaikkatieto/OpasPaikkatiedonAvaajalle
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:130 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
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