Sampsa Riikonen
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at AMD Silo AI
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolSampsa Riikonen is a Senior Member of Technical Staff and PhD-trained computational physicist with over a decade of experience building production video streaming and machine-vision systems. He moved from academic research into designing cross-platform (Qt) and cloud-native live video analytics solutions, and today delivers OpenCV and deep-learning based image recognition projects at Silo.ai and AMD Silo AI. Sampsa has led end-to-end products—edge and cloud deployments, Docker/Kubernetes stacks, Postgres-backed web apps and IP/industrial camera integrations—and re-architected real-time streaming frameworks in commercial settings. He maintains a pythonic streaming framework (valkka.fi), signaling a focus on practical, reusable tooling beyond client projects. Based in Helsinki, he pairs rigorous scientific training with hands-on engineering, and is also a father of two—an influence he says keeps his time-management and prioritization sharp.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Material Physics, Sobresaliente Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Material Physics, Sobresaliente Cum Laude at University of the Basque CountryData Analytics Pro, Training program for data analytics, Data Analytics Pro, Training program for data analytics at Saranen ConsultingMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at Aalto UniversitySuomen Armeija (finnish military service)Bachelor's degree, General, Magna Cum Laude Approbatur, Bachelor's degree, General, Magna Cum Laude Approbatur at Vuosaaren Lukio
Finnish, English, Spanish, Swedish
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Github Skills (197)
geth10
fastapi10
postgresql10
web-application10
json-schema10
python10
cookiecutter10
swagger10
htmx10
video-compression10
abi10
compression10
backend10
openapi10
flask10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elsampsa/valkka-examples
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Valkka Python3 Examples
Contributions:168 commits, 18 PRs, 207 pushes in 5 years 3 months
elsampsa/valkka-live
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
OpenSource Video Surveillance Program
Contributions:129 commits, 5 PRs, 139 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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