Summary
Sampo Siltanen is a senior software engineer based in Helsinki with 5 years of professional experience and a strong background across full-stack development, cloud (Azure/AWS), databases, DevOps, and software architecture. A functional programming advocate, he prefers F# while also bringing deep C#, TypeScript/Node.js, C++ and Python expertise to production systems. He has delivered backend and cloud-native solutions at Solita and Reaktor and now contributes to Mapbox, pairing hands-on coding with mentoring and architecture design. Beyond work, he builds diverse hobby projects—Unity games, a homegrown C++ game engine, bots and open-source libraries—demonstrating a sustained appetite for systems-level craftsmanship and game development informed by formal studies in game design.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information and Knowledge Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information and Knowledge Management at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
Game Development and Design, Game Development and Design at Ulster University
English, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese