Sami Kananoja
Chief Engineer at Cargotec
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSami Kananoja is a seasoned software engineer and current Chief Engineer based in Tampere, Finland, with 12+ years of experience designing and implementing complex Qt/QML and C++ systems across telecom and industrial domains. He combines hands-on implementation with architectural leadership, having driven UI frameworks, input methods, and scalable software at Nokia, Jolla and Cargotec. Sami is known for strong analytical problem solving, a pragmatic focus on the bigger picture, and a willingness to challenge existing designs to find better solutions. He has experience across the full stack of product delivery—from embedded UI components and real-time systems to backend and frontend work earlier in his career. Comfortable in Scrum roles and technical leadership, he blends code-level craftsmanship with team coaching and architecture ownership. Colleagues value that he remains "hands dirty" on implementation even while steering complex, system-level decisions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology at Tampere University of Technology
Github Skills (27)
browser9
openxml8
javascript8
nodejs7
react7
systemd-service7
typescript5
nextjs5
sensu5
maintenance4
btrfs4
systemd3
qml3
system-administration3
filesystem3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kananoja/sailfish-browser
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:9 pushes in 4 months
javascriptsailfishbrowser
kananoja/nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 months
nemosettings
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