Sami Olmari
Cyber Security Specialist at Hacklab ry
Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSami Olmari is a cyber security specialist with 14 years of hands-on IT experience, currently working as a SOC analyst at HYDAC where he blends threat detection with developing and improving the tooling used by the team. He has a practical engineering background building electronics for ship and power plant engines and started in telecommunications and manufacturing, which gives him deep operational awareness of industrial systems. As CEO of his own consulting firm and chairman of a national hacklab collaboration, he advises on solutions from first virtual machines to complex, secure architectures. Sami contributes to open-source DevOps tooling—enhancing terminal/system info utilities with IPv6 and multi-method IP detection—demonstrating a preference for pragmatic, performance-minded fixes. Based in Vaasa, Finland, he pairs academic IT training with real-world electrician and R&D experience, making him comfortable at the intersection of OT and IT security. Notably, he actively improves the detective side of security by building the very tools he uses to hunt threats.
14 years of coding experience
Engineer’s Degree, Information Technology, Engineer’s Degree, Information Technology at Vaasan ammattikorkeakoulu VAMK University of Applied SciencesVocational, Electric, Electronics, Telecommunication, ICT, Vocational, Electric, Electronics, Telecommunication, ICT at Vaasa Vocational Institute
Finnish, Swedish, English
Github Skills (14)
system-administration10
sh10
script10
terminal-emulator10
shell10
terminal-application10
scripting10
system-monitoring10
automation9
automations9
bash9
utility8
ipv47
ipv67
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
andresgongora/synth-shell
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Boost your terminal, script by script
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:45 commits, 42 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sami primarily focused on improving the `synth-shell` project's system information display capabilities. Their contributions include refactoring functions for improved speed, adding IPv6 support, and enhancing the methods for retrieving local and external IP addresses, supporting multiple methods to determine them. They also made a notable change to the systemctl command.
system-administrationproductivityeye-candybashutility
vaasahacklab/gatekeeper
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
Raspberry Pi + GSM Shield + python to control lock and environment
Contributions:96 commits, 17 PRs, 164 pushes in 6 years 9 months
raspberry-pipythonlockraspberrygsm
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