Sami Kallinen
Board Member at 8-bit-sheep
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolSami Kallinen is a media-rooted digital transformation leader and founder with over a decade of experience turning traditional organisations into data- and AI-enabled product teams. He has led radical transformation programs as CDO/CTO-style leader at Yle and KSF Media, pairing product strategy, analytics and engineering to drive personalization, APIs and developer ecosystems. As founder of 8-bit-sheep he advises companies on making data and AI practical, while still writing Clojure daily and remaining an active Lisp coder—an unusual hands-on technical habit for a board-level executive. His career began in online media three decades ago, launching one of the world’s earliest daily web film publications, and spans cultural leadership roles from theatre boards to arts festivals. Known for blending humanist sensibilities with rigorous engineering discipline, he excels at reframing organisational culture to embrace agile, creative problem solving. Based in Helsinki, he combines practical coding chops with strategic vision to bridge journalism, product and AI.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
No degree, Film and Television studies, No degree, Film and Television studies at Turun yliopistoNo degree, Philosophy, No degree, Philosophy at Åbo AkademiNo degree, Film and television studes, No degree, Film and television studes at Stockholm University
English, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch
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Github Skills (68)
clojure-cli10
deps-edn10
browser9
edn9
extensible9
lisp9
common-lisp9
emacs8
linux8
journal8
vim8
clojure-spec8
javascript7
cli7
babashka7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
skallinen/skallinen.github.io
Mar 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:134 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
8-bit-sheep/8-bit-sheep.github.io
May 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 183 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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