Tom Himanen
Founding Engineer (ShookAI) at Shook Digital
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolTom Himanen is a founding engineer and product-minded technologist with 12 years of experience building AI-integrated software, robotics, and digital products from prototype to launch. Based in Tallinn, he blends hands-on engineering—recently developing LLM and speech-to-text integrations for Videosync—with business development and startup leadership as founder/CEO and partner across multiple ventures. He mentored an ISS fungi-farming robotics project that shipped multiple robot iterations to space, highlighting rare hands-on aerospace experience alongside consumer and enterprise software work. A pragmatic visionary who calls himself a "prototype artist," Tom excels at translating ambitious ideas into funded, deliverable solutions and teams. He’s comfortable conversing fluently with both humans and machines, bridging product, marketing and technical execution. Less obvious: his career rhythm reflects self-directed jumps between deep technical roles and outward-facing business/education work, making him effective at both shipping code and securing stakeholder support.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Community Security Officer Security, Community Security Officer Security at Lisäturva OyUpper secondary English line, Upper secondary English line at Kouvola Coeducational Upper Secondary SchoolMaster's degree Business Administration and Law, Master's degree Business Administration and Law at Xamk - South-Eastern Finland University of Applied SciencesInternational Space Station Project Team Mentor, International Space Station Project Team Mentor at The Quest Institute (San Jose, Silicon Valley)Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) ICT and innovations, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) ICT and innovations at HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied SciencesInformation Technology and Digital Services, Information Technology and Digital Services at Reaktor Academy
Finnish, English, Swedish, php, javascript, c++, python
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (155)
whisper10
artificial-intelligence10
speech-to-text10
inference10
openai10
javascript9
ionic9
linux9
ai9
cli9
reactive-programming9
transformer9
realtime9
command-line-interface9
python9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
erkkimon/backup-advanced
Feb 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
erkkimon/scripts
Nov 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes in 6 years 6 months
osxbash-scriptslinuxbashmacos
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