Vesa Karvonen
Software Engineer at Jane Street
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVesa Karvonen is a software engineer with 12+ years of professional experience and deep expertise in functional and concurrent programming, compilers, and language/runtime design. He has built lock-free algorithms and concurrency libraries (STM, effects-based interfaces) and helped optimize OCaml for multicore use, most recently as part of Jane Street’s OCaml language team. His background spans low-level assembly and hardware-aware optimizations to high-level type-driven design and EDSLs, with production work across languages including F#, Scala, C++, OCaml and tooling for game and backend systems. Vesa combines research-grade understanding (e.g. MESI, Curry-Howard) with practical delivery—rewriting critical components, designing parallelization libraries, and mentoring engineers—making complex concurrency and language features usable in real systems. An occasional open-source contributor and former author of libraries like Hopac and Kcas, he gravitates toward projects that make hard programming problems convenient and safe.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Helsingin yliopisto
Finnish, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (200)
cml10
effects10
ppx10
compare-and-swap10
opam10
mutex10
package-repository10
functional10
pooling10
json10
suave10
child-process10
observables10
user-interface10
partial10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
1ml-prime/1ml-mode
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
polytypic/fastener
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:141 commits, 3 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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