Timo A
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTimo A is a Principal Software Engineer based in Finland with 13 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning system software, Linux kernel development, project management and digital hardware design. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at NVIDIA since 2013, evolving from system software engineer to senior manager and now principal engineer, showing a strong blend of hands-on engineering and team leadership. His background includes deep hardware design expertise (Verilog/VHDL, static timing analysis) from roles at ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics and Nokia, which gives him a rare full-stack view from silicon to kernel. He also brings research experience in low-power cryptographic hardware and embedded security from Tampere University of Technology, informing pragmatic approaches to secure, high-performance systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges org-level strategy and low-level implementation details, often recruiting and mentoring talent while driving complex cross-functional projects.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, M.Sc at Tampere University of Technology
Github Skills (40)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
akatrevorjay/kernel-jetson
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:151 commits in 1 year 5 months
OE4T/linux-tegra-5.10
Oct 2016 - Mar 2022
NVIDIA downstream Linux kernel for Jetson platforms in single-repo form, derived from L4T R35.x series BSP
Contributions:32 commits in 5 years 5 months
kerneljetsonnvidiaplatformslinux
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