Timo Erkkilä
Co-Founder, CEO at Veracell
Tampere Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolTimo Erkkilä is a data-driven technology entrepreneur and AI strategist with 14 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms, machine learning pipelines, and scalable analytics for industry and research. As Co-Founder and CEO of Veracell and AI advisor at Tieto, he blends hands-on algorithm development with product leadership, sales support, and workshop facilitation to turn tangled data into actionable digital services. His background spans roles as CTO and director at multiple startups and research stints at Amazon and the Institute for Systems Biology, where he worked on production forecasting systems and large-scale ensemble learning across massive compute clusters. Holding a PhD in biomathematics and deep expertise in signal processing and statistics, he excels at bridging technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver measurable impact. Quietly, he pairs academic rigor with a pragmatic focus on operationalizing ML—designing solutions that survive real-world scale and complexity.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
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Github Skills (11)
scikit10
scikit-learn10
statistics10
machine-learning10
python10
data-science10
data-analysis10
logistic-regression9
linear-regression8
sklearn7
graph4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
terkkila/scikit-learn
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
pythonlogistic-regressiondata-sciencelearn-machine-learningsklearn
Quva/sparkplug
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Data Stream Adapter for Quva Flow
Contributions:18 PRs, 156 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 11 months
data-streamadaptersparkstreamkafka
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