Curriculum Vitae ================ Contact Information: -------------------- Name: Veli Kaksonen City: Lahti Country: Finland Phone: +358-50-4820837 email: firstname (dot) lastname (at) kajuutta.com Personal Information: --------------------- Year of Birth: 1978 Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland Nationality: Finnish Sex: Male Marital Status: Married Children: 2 About me: --------- I get easily excited by new ideas and challenges. Upon creating something new or solving challenges I focus on understanding the big picture and then dividing it to smaller easily understandable parts. I am most certainly at my best when creating something new and ground breaking! Employment History: ------------------- Employer.: Kajuutta Oy Date.....: May 2015 -> Ongoing Position.: Founder, CTO / CoB Achievements: Developed various solutions for a wide variety of customers (from stealthy startups to publicly traded companies), including frontend, backend and application development, architecture design as well as product and project management. Assignments: - Consulting - Architecture design, Swift, Obj-C, Python, Postgresql, React.js, Ruby, MySQL, AWS, Firebase, nodejs, Embedded Linux, ... - Customer acquisition - Business development Employer.: Huimio Oy Date.....: Apr 2012 -> 2018 Position.: Founder, CTO / CoB Achievements: Tunemio music rehearsing application developed and released in iOS & Mac AppStores. Raised funding from private and public sources Assignments: - Assignments within a startup are pretty wide... - Business development - Software development related: - iOS & OS X application development including: - Core Audio (DSP) - Custom UI components (e.g. zooming waveform display) - IAP and free version restriction handling with serverside secure signing - Serverside & web developement on Linux including: - MongoDB, Firebase, Python, nodejs, javascript, html5, css Employer.: Nokia Date.....: Jan 2010 -> Sep 2012 Position.: Project Manager Assignments: - MeeGo.com SDK Program Manager - Responsible of MeeGo.com SDK and collaboration between Nokia & Intel around SDK (leading ~50 people, 6 project managers / team leads) Employer.: Movial Creative Technologies Inc. - www.movial.fi Date.....: Feb 2007 -> Dec 2009 Position.: Technology Manager Assignments: - Member of Movial Creative Technologies Steering Team - Movial IXS Technology Manager - Web2.0 oriented embedded Linux platform - R&D Management (also including applying and management of Tekes/ITEA(2) etc. projects) - Innovations & New Concepts Management - Open Source strategist Employer.: Movial Corporation - www.movial.fi Date.....: Feb 2002 -> Feb 2007 Positions: Team Leader, Jan 2004 -> Feb 2007 Senior Software Developer, Feb 2002 - Jan 2004 Assignments: - Linux Platforms & Developement Tools Team Leader (5 - 10 persons) - Product Management - Scratchbox Cross-development Toolkit Project Leader ( http://www.scratchbox.org ) - Linux Technology Researcher (Resource hire for Nokia Maemo project) - Open Source strategist - Sales & Account Management Employer: Lumo Media Oy Date....: Jan 2001 -> Feb 2002 Position: Senior Software Developer Assingments: - Web Technology Expert & Consultant - SMS Services Developement Employer: WOW-Verkkobrandit Oy Date....: Jan 2000 -> Jan 2001 Position: Software Developer Assignments: - www.fi Search Engine Development - Web Traffic Monitor Development Employer: Vaskivuoren Lukio, City of Vantaa (High School) Date....: Dec 1998 -> Jan 2000 Position: System Administrator / Web Developer (Army Civil Service) Assignments: - Creating Linux Infrastructure (Computer classroom with Linux Desktops etc.) - System Administration (approx. 100 Linux & Windows NT machines) - Intraweb Development - Substitute Teacher Employer: Helsinki Media Date....: May 1998 - July 1998 Position: Software Developer / Tester, CD-ROM Localisation project Assignments: - Developing localisation helper tools - Testing Other work Experience: ---------------------- Music & Composing: - Composing and performing of YLE Abitreenit 2013 theme music. Abitreenit is a net video production with multiple episodes by YLE (Finnish national broadcasting company) Positions of Trust: ------------------- - Lahden musiikkiluokkientuki Ry (Non-profit org. for supporting music emphasised classes) - Board member 2017, 2018 - Lotilan koulun vanhempainyhdistys Ry (elementary school parents non-profit org.) - Launeen peruskoulun vanhempainyhdistys Ry (elementary school parents non-profit org.) - Board member 2015, 2016 - Lahden Munskankarna ry (Lahti Munskänkarna nonprofit organization) - Chairman of the Board 2014 - Board member 2013 - Lahden Montessori Yhdistys (Lahti Montessori nonprofit organization) - Secretary of the Board 2012, 2013, 2014 - Board member 2011 Personal Achievements: ---------------------- - Raised funding both privately and from public sources - Applications developed and sold worldwide in both iOS and Mac app stores, featured by Apple in both stores. - Inventing Scratchbox -- http://www.scratchbox.org - Used by e.g.: - Nokia (Maemo platform) - Access / PalmSource (ALP platform) - ARM Linux Internet Platform (ARM Ltd) - Also many other platforms... - I acted as Scratchbox Open Source Project Leader for many years - Finding and driving Movial IXS concept / product - Concept of using Web UI technologies with native applications in embedded Linux context (work started during 2006 (way before palm WebOS or Chrome OS) - Creating first versions of ALIP architecture - Embedded Linux platform later chosen by ARM to be the defacto Linux platform on ARM (Obsoleted by Linaro) - Running (and developing) Uutimet.net -service -- http://uutimet.net - News site used by default by e.g. Firefox RSS reader (Finnish localisation version) - One day site usage data (09 Oct 2006): - 1564835 hits (avg. 18 hits/second, peak 50 hits/second (5min average)) - 370075 different cookies - 181406 different ips - Uutimet.net has been sold as a basis for an upcoming news oriented service Education: ---------- Date: Feb 2002 - May 2006 Movial Management Training Explanation: Courses about Project Management, Team Management, Recruiting, Sales, Account Management etc. Date: Dec 1998 Degree: Finnish Baccalaureate Info: http://www.ylioppilastutkinto.fi/en Publications: ------------- Date: 1 Feb 2005 Title: Introduction to cross-compiling Media: Linux+ magazine Date: 1 Nov 2004 Title: Comparing Scratchbox cross-compile times to native compile times Media: LinuxDevices.com URL: http://piipiip.net/~veli/Comparing_Scratchbox_cross-compile_times_to_native_compile_times.pdf Date: 1 Apr 2004 Title: An introduction to the Scratchbox cross-development tool Media: LinuxDevices.com URL: http://piipiip.net/~veli/An_introduction_to_the_Scratchbox_cross-development_tool.pdf References: ----------- Mr. Ville Lavonius - CEO - Kajuutta Oy - +358-40-5149523 * Kajuutta co-founder * Huimio co-founder * Product Manager for MeeGo SDK (when we worked at Nokia) Personal interests: ------------------- My family :), Music...