Mika Vesalainen

Experience

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  ANDRITZ

  Jun 1993 - Mar 2000

  Office Trainee (Excel, VBA, AutoCad, Ladder programming)

  As a part time trainee, I drew paper machine parts by Autocad and embedded them in inspection documents in WordPerfect 5.1. Later I wrote VBA scripts and formulas in MS Excel. I also wrote some Ladder programs in Siemens S4, and helped IT department (SW installation, cabling, UPS testing and problem investigation).

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  Instrumentointi Oy / SecGo Solutions Oy

  Mar 2000 - May 2001

  SW Trainee (TCP, UDP, IP, IPSEC, Security, Crypt, SSL, RSA, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Bash, C++)

  I made dynamic link libraries (.dll, .so) for SecGo CryptoIP server. These libraries were used to automatic login in IP services by using RSA authentication. The plugins were implemented by C++ language. Also I made Bash scripts for customers to install the software.

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  Patria

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  SW Design engineer (CDMA, OSE, Windows, 3G, Base station, Embedded C, SW development)

  I worked in a team who made decoder software for (cellular) 3G base stations.

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  Ailocom Oy

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  HW / SW Design Engineer (Linux, Embedded C, ASM, Bluetooth, Wireless, Bash, PHP, CGI, HTML, Kernel)

  In this position I debugged Kernel drivers, wrote PHP GUI scripts (in C language), and made scripts to produce customer executables. I was responsible for customer deliverables. I put together an SDK for the customers.

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  Tieto-X Oy

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  HW / SW Design engineer (GPS, Geoid, NMEA, Embedded C, DSP, HW Debug, Flash Memory)

  During this period I implemented, for example, a module which encodes/decodes NMEA strings, a module which compress the EGM96 Geoid model and I made SW workaround for the NAND flash issue which occurs after reclaim in (at least) one type of flash devices.

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  Atheros Communications

  Jan 2005 - Jun 2011

  I was SW architect of the recever manager component in GNSS software. The lite version of the navigation software was executed fully in Xtensa or VSDSP based DSP processor producing NMEA stream out from serial port. In full version the main positioning was calculated in generic CPU, which was most often ARM based and running Linux, WinCE or Android operating system. In u-Nav my main responsibilities included building daily binaries for test team. I fully automated this process by using Bash + Bat shell scripts. I also designed and implemented the portable operating system abstraction for the GNSS software including for example full file system optimized for the use cases.

  • Senior Member of Technical Staff (GPS, Xtensa, ARM, SW Architect, Perforce, Embedded C, Integration)

    Dec 2007 - Jun 2011

  • HW / SW Design Engineer (GPS, HW Debug, ASM, DSP, C, BASH, RTOS)

    Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
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  Qualcomm

  May 2011 - Nov 2015

  Major part of this period I was part of the team that designed and implemented Galileo support in Qualcomm modem software. Additionally I was adding QZSS support to modem software during this period. As manager I planned and tracked the execution of my three direct reports. During this period my primary responsibility was to get Xtensa (Tensilica) based GPS+GLONASS baseband to communicate with Qualcomm based navigation software. As result of this the Qualcomm navigation software was ported to multiple platforms. I also gave customer support in the customer's premises in Taiwan.

  • Engineer, Staff / Manager (GNSS, Embedded C, SW Development, Linux, Android, Git, Line Management)

    Mar 2013 - Nov 2015

  • Engineer, Staff + Engineer, Senior (GNSS, ARM, Linux, RTOS, SW Development, Kernel, Integration)

    May 2011 - Feb 2013
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  U-blox

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2023

  My last tasks at u-blox included transition to AWS, IT coordination and improvement of software development automation. As a manager at u-blox, I was responsible for changing development workflows, which included a better review culture and the use of Jira. I also led my team to change the company's git backend to GitLab. In the KPI visualization, I focused on the use of Grafana. In this role, I led a team to implement an automated CI pipeline for u-blox firmware. As my first task at u-blox, I switched the company's version control system from subversion to git.

  • Senior Manager (CI, CD, TA, Git, GitLab, AWS, Ansible, Linux, Agile)

    Jan 2022 - Jun 2023

  • Manager (CI, CD, TA, Git, GitLab, Linux, Jira, SAST, Grafana, Agile)

    Jul 2018 - Dec 2021

  • Senior Engineer Team Lead (CI, Git, Jenkins, Groovy, SCA, Scrum)

    May 2016 - Jun 2018

  • Senior Engineer (CI, Git, Jenkins, Make, Subversion)

    Jan 2016 - Apr 2016