Sampo Savolainen
Chief Technology Officer at Spatineo Inc.
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSampo Savolainen is a Helsinki-based Chief Technology Officer with 15 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, skilled at taking ideas from prototype through product and deployment. He has led R&D and executive functions at Spatineo since 2011, combining strategic product thinking with deep full-stack engineering. His open-source contributions span front-end analytics (enhancing angulartics for Mixpanel identity tracking) to back-end geospatial projects (GeoServer and GeoTools), showing strength in API design, concurrency fixes and stored-query support. Analytical and detail-oriented, he moves quickly between business considerations and low-level technical work, and has a history of improving documentation and resilience in complex systems.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (18)
mixpanel10
javascript10
geoserver10
wfs10
geospatial10
analytics10
java10
javas10
angularjs10
webmap9
apim9
api9
mappings9
xml9
junit8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Apr 2013 - Feb 2015
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Sampo primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the GeoServer project, focusing on resolving concurrency issues, refactoring metadata handling, and adding support for cascaded stored queries. Their work involved modifications to core Java classes, including those related to time parsing, feature source metadata, and stored query configurations, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's internal workings and API design. The user's contributions also included improvements to the documentation, refining the configuration instructions for cascaded stored queries.
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geotools/geotools
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sampo primarily contributed to the GeoTools project by addressing various aspects of the WFS (Web Feature Service) implementation. Their work included adding license information, refactoring tests, and supporting WFS 2.0 stored query functionality. Additionally, the user made whitespace adjustments and other minor code improvements within the project.
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