Petri Wilhelmsen
Founder at Lyra Creative
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPetri Wilhelmsen is a founder and product-focused engineer with 14 years of experience building realistic simulators, real-time graphics and immersive experiences from Helsinki. He leads Wilhelmsen Studios, creating historically accurate space simulators like REENTRY that recreate Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, and recently founded Lyra Creative to expand his product work. Ex-Microsoft, Petri combines program management and developer evangelism experience with hands-on UI contributions to open-source projects such as adding Surface Dial support to the Windows Community Toolkit. His work spans digital twins, mixed/augmented/virtual reality and simulation of complex dynamic systems for industrial and consumer applications. Known for marrying technical depth with a product-first mindset, he often surfaces non-obvious fidelity details that make simulations feel authentic.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Oslo and Akershus University College
English, Norwegian, Finnish
Github Skills (10)
uwp10
windows-app-sdk10
winui10
csharp10
xaml10
dotnet-core10
dotnet8
net8
asp-net8
mvvm8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Petri primarily contributed to the UI of the Windows Community Toolkit, specifically around implementing Surface Dial support for textboxes. They developed a helper class to enable Surface Dial functionality within textboxes, allowing rotation to change values and tapping for navigation. They added a sample page to demonstrate the functionality and integrated the control into the sample application, enhancing the user experience. The user also added documentation for the control.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
petriw/Escape-
Feb 2012 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
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