Tuomo Soini
Retired. Doctoral Student At Tampere University at Ex: Nokia, Tagmania, Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolTuomo Soini is a seasoned software and program management leader with 17+ years delivering large-scale, multinational development organizations and portfolio planning processes. He has led teams of up to 100 people at Nokia, founded a mobile Internet startup focusing on location-aware services and NFC, and later taught as a senior lecturer while pursuing doctoral research in knowledge management. Tuomo combines hands-on software and security work—evidenced by contributions to the Openswan IPsec project—with strategic expertise in pipeline, quarterly increment planning, outsourcing and full product ownership. He is skilled at bridging operator collaboration, partner ecosystems and R&D to turn complex requirements into practical services. Notably, his career blends deep technical roots in network management and Unix systems with entrepreneurship and academic inquiry, reflecting a commitment to lifelong learning. Based in Tampere, Finland, he brings rare cross-domain experience from low-level network code to user-facing mobile services.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral researcher Knowledge Management, Doctoral researcher Knowledge Management at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Vocational Teacher Education, Vocational Teacher Education at Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Swedish, English, German, Finnish
Github Skills (8)
ipsec10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
networking10
security10
debug9
debugging9
nat-traversal8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xelerance/Openswan
Feb 2009 - Jul 2012
Openswan
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:191 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tuomo primarily contributed to the OpenSwan project by fixing bugs and improving the security of the codebase. Their work focused on modifying core system files, specifically addressing issues related to NETKEY functionality, IPsec tunnel management, and the handling of specific connection types (CK_INSTANCE and CK_PERMANENT). The user also made changes related to logging, including debug messages for NAT traversal and DPD (Dead Peer Detection) and cleaned up the code's comments, improving maintainability.
bleve/clamav-devel
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
ClamAV Development - FAQ is here: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-faq
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
talosclamav
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