Sampsa Riikonen
AI And Fullstack Engineer at mantisvision.ai
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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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.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Material Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Material Physics 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, Bachelor's degree General at Vuosaaren Lukio
Finnish, English, Spanish, Swedish
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Github Skills (140)
geth10
fastapi10
postgresql10
python10
video-compression10
shadcn-ui10
compression10
openapi10
p2p10
docker-compose10
jwt10
computer-vision10
surveillance10
sqlmodel10
wsdl10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elsampsa/valkka-live
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
OpenSource Video Surveillance Program
Contributions:129 commits, 5 PRs, 139 pushes in 3 years 4 months
ffmpegsurveillancevideo-surveillancevideo
elsampsa/darknet-python
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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