🤓 Welcome to My Work Portfolio
Passionate and experienced data guy 🤓 with a strong background in 🧮 mathematical modeling and 🎛️ control engineering. Currently, working as a 👨💻 Data Engineer @Solita and building resilient data solutions for the customers using modern cloud platforms and tools like Azure (especially Azure Data Factory and Azure DevOps), Databricks, Python, and PostgreSQL.
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🔍 By the way, Solita is constantly looking for talented persons, check out our 👉 open positions 👈 or just drop me a message ✉︎.
🛠️ Skill & Tools
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s a visual summary of my skills and the tools I use.
Other Technical Skills: MATLAB, Simulink, COMSOL (FEM), git, Powershell, Crosser, Markdown, bash, Linux (Ubuntu/WSL)
Education
- D. Sc. (Tech.), Tampere University of Technology, Aug 2018
- M. Sc. (Tech.), Tampere University of Technology, July 2010
Work Experience
👨💻 Data Engineer @Solita (March 2023 - Present)
- Developing and maintaining robust and scalable data solutions, both in data lake and relational databases, for customers; check my Projects section to find out more
- Main tools and technologies: ETL / ELT, Azure, especially Data Factory and DevOps, Databricks, PostgreSQL, Python
- Also worked with Snowflake, Crosser and IIoT data, Docker, git, and write small Powershell and bash scripts.
👨💻 Data Engineer @Futurice (Oct 2022 - Feb 2023)
- I started my career shift from academia to the world of data consultant. Intensive learning, certifications, and customer work in retail industry.
👨🔬 Academy - Various Positions, Tampere University (2006-2022)
See full records in 👉👨🔬 My Academic Portfolio👈. Below, I briefly summarize my three most recent positions. Over 15+ years in academia, I developed mathematical models using FEM/COMSOL and MATLAB & Simulink, conducted data analysis with MATLAB, designed various control systems, including those utilizing fuzzy controllers, and developed microfluidics chips.
🤓 Visiting Scholar @Tampere University (Oct 2022 - Dec 2024, part time)
I continued as a part-time researcher (approx. 10 hours/month) in Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group led by Professor Pasi Kallio.
- Research areas: Lab-on-a-chip, data analysis, vascularization, fuzzy control
- Main tools: MATLAB, Simulink, COMSOL (FEM)
👨🏼🎓 Postdoctoral Research Fellow @Tampere University (Sep 2018 - Oct 2022)
As a postdoc in Professor Pasi Kallio’s Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group, I devloped data analysis methods for several challenging biosignals. Additionally, I worked as professor Kallio’s Vice-PI in a multidisciplinary team combining cell biologists and engineers, and led a group of researchers developing a novel vascular-on-a-chip platform for 3D cell co-cultures.
- Research areas: Lab-on-a-chip, data analysis, microfluidics, iPS-CM, fuzzy control
- Main tools: Soft lithography, MATLAB, Simulink, COMSOL (FEM)
👨🔬 Doctoral Researcher @Tampere University of Technology (Sep 2011 - Aug 2018)
My Ph.D. work involved designing and implementing automation and control systems and microfluidics chips, mathematical modeling and data handling using MATLAB, Simulink, and COMSOL.
- Research areas: Microsystems, microfluidics, control engineering
- Main tools: Soft lithography, MATLAB, Simulink, COMSOL (FEM)
- Dissertation ‘Modeling and Control of Microscale Cell Culture Environments’ available here
Certifications
Full list available in Credly.
- Feb 2024 Agile Data Engine – Agile Data Engine for Data Engineers
- Nov 2022 Azure – Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
- Nov 2022 Azure – Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
- Nov 2022 Azure – Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Dec 2022 AWS – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Oct 2022 Scrum – Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
📂 Projects
Data Engineering Services | Private Company, Finland (NDA)
📅 March 2024 - Present
🚀 Role: Data Engineer
🔌 Industry: Energy Sector | Data: Operational & Analytical
🌟 Key Contributions:
- Building and maintaining a scalable data platform spanning both data lakes and relational databases.
- Optimizing data pipelines to enhance performance and reliability.
- Ensuring seamless data integration across multiple sources for analytics and operations.
- Working with time-series data
🛠️ Tech Stack:
Databricks, PostgreSQL, Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps
Data Engineering and Analytics Services| The Football Association of Finland ⚽︎
📅 Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
🚀 Role: Data Engineer and Data Analyst
🔌 Industry: Sport Sector ⚽︎ | Data: Operational & Analytical
🌟 Key Contributions:
- Providing data engineer and analytics services for the customer including monitoring and maintaining ADF pipelines and small-scale development on Azure.
🛠️ Tech Stack:
Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure CLI, Azure Functions, MySQL
Industrial IoT Data Engineering Services | Collaboration with Nokia, Snowflake, and Crosser
📅 Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
🚀 Role: Data Engineer and Data Analyst
🔌 Industry: Industry 4.0 | Data: Operational
🌟 Key Contributions:
- Developing methods to collect and analyze Industrial IoT (IIoT) data by combining Nokia MX Industrial Edge, Crosser, and Snowflake with Streamlit. Demo related to Industry 4.0 presented in 2024 Hannover Messe, more info here.
🛠️ Tech Stack:
Crosser, Snowflake, Streamlit, ELT
Developing Machine Learning Capabilities | Public sector organization in Finland (NDA)
📅 May 2023 - April 2024
🚀 Role: Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist
🔌 Industry: Public Sector | Data: Analytical
🌟 Key Contributions:
- Developing machine learning capabilities for the customer, using both supervised and unsupervised learning, created for example a supervised classification algorithm using Databricks for the customer ERP system.
🛠️ Tech Stack:
Databricks, AutoML, Snowflake, SQL, Python & Spark
Data Engineering Services | Finnish retail company (NDA)
📅 Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
🚀 Role: Data Engineer
🔌 Industry: Retail Sector | Data: Operational
🌟 Key Contributions:
- Handling customer’s operational data, mainly using Azure Data Factory and PostgreSQL, and was part of the team that was improving the system to fulfill the future needs of the customer.
🛠️ Tech Stack:
Azure, Azure Data Factory, PostgreSQL, Python, Databricks
📂 Own projects
🔍 📈 DatAnalyzer (repo)
A data analysis tool built with MATLAB, described here.
🔍 📝 DocLaTex (repo)
Write LaTeX documents together with co-authors that use only MS Word, combines Powershell, Pandoc, LaTeX, and Markdown, more info here.
📊 Trainings 💻
Industrial Data Hothouse - Solita, Solita
📅 May 2023 - June 2023
In this 4-week long program, participants learned the concepts of industrial data and OT-IT convergence, edge computing and hybrid cloud in manufacturing and industrial data modelling and contextualization. We considered multiple technologies and partners, especially in Industrial IoT (IIoT) perceptive, for example Snowflake, Databricks, Crosser.io, Litmus, Nokia MX Industrial Edge, cybersecurity, Docker, OPC UA, and MQTT.
Agile Data Engine (ADE) for Data Engineers, Agile Data Engine
📅 April 2023 - April 2023
The key areas of this certificate are the following: 1) introduction to using ADE, 2) Hands-on training in a streamlined data warehouse project, 3) Comprehensive theory on ADE features and data modeling concepts. After this one week training, participants can succesfully import, model, and publish data.
📝 Blogging
I share my thoughts from time to time (all posts 👉here); my latest posts are following:
- My struggles to make posts work properly (March 23, 2025)
- Get Started With GitHub Pages (March 14, 2025)
- How to start blogging using GitHub Pages (March 01, 2025)