Raimo Niskanen
Software Designer at Ericsson AB
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Raimo Niskanen is a seasoned software designer with 19 years of experience specialising in Erlang, C, Perl and low-level systems work, based in the Greater Stockholm area. He has spent two decades at Ericsson driving Erlang/OTP development, web operations and community collaboration as a mailing-list and VCS external maintainer. His open-source contributions to the renowned Erlang/OTP repository include refactoring and improving SSL test modules and network distribution handlers, reflecting deep expertise in concurrent, fault-tolerant systems. Earlier roles blended software and hardware design for telecom protocols and GSM consulting, giving him practical protocol- and hardware-level insight few software engineers possess. Raimo holds an MSEE from KTH and began his Erlang focus during his master’s integration work connecting Erlang to telecom middleware. He prefers pragmatic tools that solve real problems and brings a craftsman’s attention to robustness and testability in production systems.
19 years of coding experience
MSEE, Electrotechnics, MSEE, Electrotechnics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (10)
erlang10
network-programming10
cryptography10
testing9
concurrency9
sctp5
tls135
libtls5
tls125
mtls5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erlang/otp
Jan 2010 - Dec 2022
Erlang/OTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:182 reviews, 1459 commits, 224 PRs in 13 years
Contributions summary:Raimo's commits primarily focus on improving the `lib/ssl/test/inet_crypto_dist.erl` module, which is part of the Erlang/OTP's SSL library. The contributions involve code refactoring, including rewriting and simplifying the `input_handler` loop, enhancing test case diagnostics, and adding new functionalities. Furthermore, there are improvements to load parameters and cleanup to enhance the efficiency of the output handler and manage distribution-related operations, indicating involvement in the implementation and optimization of network-related functionalities within the Erlang/OTP ecosystem.
gleamerlangbeamerlang-otpelixir
erlang/eep
May 2007 - Mar 2021
Erlang Enhancement Proposals
Contributions:60 reviews, 104 commits, 21 PRs in 14 years
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