Petteri Äijö
Sales Executive at Nortal
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPetteri Äijö is a senior sales and account executive with 15+ years of experience leading complex IT programs, commercial teams and public sector transformations across Finland and internationally. He combines deep client-facing expertise—from closing multi-million euro strategic deals to structuring repeatable sales and delivery processes—with hands-on delivery experience managing large distributed teams and programs. His background in political science and public-sector work informs a pragmatic approach to digital government and data-driven modernization, now focused on enabling the Agentic Enterprise with Salesforce. Less obvious: alongside his commercial career he contributes to embedded open-source projects (Smoothieware, NuttX, OSS-Fuzz), reflecting technical fluency in embedded systems, USB firmware and build automation that helps bridge sales, delivery and engineering conversations. Colleagues know him for building trust-based client relationships and translating strategic goals into measurable socio-economic outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation Examination (ylioppilastutkinto), Matriculation Examination (ylioppilastutkinto) at Sotunki Upper Secondary School (Sotungin lukio)Master of Social Sciences, major: Political Science, minors: Demography, Management & Leadership, Social Policy, Master of Social Sciences, major: Political Science, minors: Demography, Management & Leadership, Social Policy at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (30)
c-language10
nuttx10
bash10
usb10
c1110
c1710
automation10
rtos10
pid-control10
driver10
device-driver10
sys10
build-automation10
pwm10
rt10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nuttx
Mar 2021 - Feb 2024
Apache NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 13 PRs, 29 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Petteri primarily focuses on adding and improving USB device firmware upgrade (DFU) capabilities for the NuttX RTOS. Their contributions include implementing a DFU runtime driver, integrating Microsoft OS descriptors for improved Windows compatibility, and addressing code style issues. Additionally, they have worked on fixes related to STM32 USB OTGFSDEV and RNDIS drivers, including handling of SETUP requests and race conditions, highlighting a strong understanding of embedded USB device drivers and communication protocols. They improved the handling of Setup requests and other USB-related issues.
operating-systemapachemicrocontrollerrtosoperating
Smoothieware/Smoothieware
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
Modular, opensource, high performance G-code interpreter and CNC controller written in Object-Oriented C++
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 30 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Petteri primarily contributed to the SmoothieWare project by implementing and modifying low-level hardware control features. They added functionality for hardware PWM control, specifically by incorporating an `hardware_pwm()` function within the `Pin` class and integrating it with other modules like `Laser` and `Spindle`. Furthermore, they refactored and improved the Spindle module, introducing PID control for spindle speed regulation and enhancing the system with smoothing filters.
cppcontrollerc-plus-plusperformancemodular
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