Timo Toivola
Product Owner, Sw & Algorithms at Detection Technology
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTimo Toivola is an R&D leader and product owner with 13 years of experience turning complex technical challenges into practical, customer-focused solutions across telecom, finance, healthcare and security domains. He blends deep hands-on software and embedded systems expertise—from C and Python to cloud-native architectures—with strong product management skills, having led roadmaps for large-scale releases and mission-critical services used by millions. Comfortable in fast-paced, multicultural teams, he excels at listening to stakeholders, shaping epics into deliverable features, and ensuring long-term technical feasibility. His background includes performance and system diagnostics at Nokia and Microsoft, security-focused embedded design at iLOQ, and building a scalable healthcare production management product at TietoEVRY. An active contributor to open-source tooling like the vnStat network monitor, he combines rigorous testing and refactoring practices with a pragmatic focus on data accuracy and efficiency.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Electrical Engineering at University of Oulu
English, Finnish, Swedish
Github Skills (9)
c1710
sqlite10
c1110
database-design10
testing10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vergoh/vnstat
Feb 2014 - Oct 2022
vnStat - a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 3 reviews, 907 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Timo's commits focus on refactoring and implementing core features within the vnStat network traffic monitor project. Their contributions include moving calculation-related functions to a common module, adding extensive test cases for the core functionality and related functions, as well as integrating functionalities for database management. The user's changes indicate work on improving data accuracy and efficiency of the project.
monitornetwork-trafficvnstatlinuxnetwork-monitoring
vergoh/vnstat-ci
Jul 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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