Riku Lindblad
AI Engineer at Metacore
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolRiku Lindblad is an AI Engineer based in Helsinki with 18 years of experience modernizing and stabilizing back-end systems for games and enterprise customers. He excels at diving into legacy codebases, untangling complexity, and choosing pragmatic fixes rather than chasing novelty—skills honed across roles from team lead and architect to senior server engineer. At Metacore he combines AI focus with developer productivity work, and previously built high-throughput, auditable systems and internal tooling at Cinia and Zynga using Go, Java, Python, and cloud-native patterns. An active contributor to the well-known FlexGet project, he’s comfortable improving IO robustness, plugin integrations and error handling in open-source back ends. He pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and product-facing responsibilities, and holds a Master of Technology in Operations Management.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Operations Management and Supervision, Master of Technology - MTech, Operations Management and Supervision at JAMK University of Applied Sciences
German, English, Finnish, Swedish
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Github Skills (16)
error-handling10
python10
automation9
automations9
rss9
torrent9
api8
apim8
jogl6
jnlp6
file-upload6
amazon-s36
jinja26
fileio6
security6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Flexget/Flexget
Feb 2008 - May 2016
The official FlexGet repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:170 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Riku primarily contributed to the FlexGet project by adding and modifying code related to input plugins and core functionality. Contributions include adding an `IOError` check to the download method in `output_download.py`, adding and handling new trackers, and fixing grammar and code quality issues in several files. The user also implemented a resolver for btjunkie, handled HTTP errors, and added timeout checks.
rssmoviespythontorrentautomation
lepinkainen/bbb-node-resin
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
BBB Resin.io platform for home automation
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
bbbmqtthome-automationresinsmarthome
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