A Creative Generalist

Your Jack-of-all-Trades

I'm a passionate and curious person, which makes me a natural generalist. I've taught myself tools and methods from a variety of disciplines, and I will quickly pick up whatever is needed to get the job done. I'm never going to be as good as a specialist in any of these disciplines. Instead, think of me as your swiss army knife: I can offer you good solutions to a wide variety of problems.

software engineeringmarketingui/ux designgraphic designdata scienceagile processesbusiness strategyproject management

IT Professional

Tech Industry Veteran

I've taken on different roles over the years, developing apps in the software industry or offering services as a freelancer to SMEs. I tend to learn on the job and I try to keep up with the latest developments.

10/21-08/22

Senior Software Developer

Karsa (Startup)

Built software allowing non-technical users to detect chemicals using a mass spectrometer.

  1. Independently designed, developed and delivered major features of the MVP.
  2. Introduced major performance improvements that made the product usable despite large datasets and analytical queries.
  3. Standardized Javascript and Python code and framework style to improve team velocity, reduce the maintenance burden and ease onboarding of new developers.
  4. Introduced Docker containerization and tooling, and Git best-practices.

PythonJavaScriptVueBuefyHTML5CSS3SQLiteDuckDBGitlab

10/19-02/21

Product Owner

Sievo (Enterprise SaaS Scaleup)

Worked alongside the product manager to plan, prioritize and manage technical development, coordinating between stakeholders.

  1. Coordinated ticket backlog, roadmapping and architecture for core AI microservices.
  2. Facilitated agile processes such as backlog grooming, retrospectives and post-mortems.
  3. Managed stakeholder communication between developers, marketing, sales, design and senior management.
  4. Participated in sales and support meetings with customer and prospect stakeholders.
  5. Hosted customer webinars and helped develop other marketing material.
  6. Designed and implemented new drill-down analytics dashboards.
  7. Drafted a successful €2M+ Eurostars funding application for a new sustainability product, leveraging environmental and social LCA to enable quantitative CSR.

AgileBacklog GroomingSpring PlanningMultistakeholder communicationMarketingQlikSense

09/17-09/19

Data Scientist

Sievo (Enterprise SaaS Scaleup)

Developed a new NLP-driven supplier record normalization microservice in Python.

  1. Coarchitected, implemented, deployed and supported a human-in-the-loop AI microservice with internal UI.
  2. Took ownership of DevOps tasks such as containerization, CI/CD pipelines and Git practices and tooling.
  3. Facilitated organization wide knowledge building in data science by organizing a weekly seminar exploring new tools and methods.

PythonNLPDockerSQLServerJiraJenkinsBash

2004-2017

Graphic Designer & WordPress Developer

Freelance

Executed graphic and web design, branding and copywriting jobs for small companies.

IllustratorPhotoshopWordPressBash

05/21-11/21

EU Grant Writer

Freelance

Freelanced as writer of Eurostars grant applications and helped develop projects and consortia for R&D performing SMEs.

Technical WritingProject ManagementEU Grants

Civic Dilettante

Engaged Citizen

In recent years I have gotten interested in the civil society, in particular the associative sector and the social economy. I've also been interested in agroecological practices and community-orientated living for years.

03/23-present

Open-Source Maintainer

Threlte (Core Team)

Core team member in the leading Svelte framework for 3D graphics in the web. Contributed major PRs and played a key role in community engagement and team organization.

SvelteThree.jsTheatre.jsFOSS Community

07/23-present

WWOOFer / Farmhand

Organic Farms

Volunteered in a small commercial organic vegetable farm in Provence and a mountain homesteading farm in the Savoie.

PermacultureNo-tillHomesteadingLivestock

01/23-07/23

Web Developer & Designer

Global Ecovillage Network

Helped streamline a legacy website's navigation and content in preperation for fundraising. The site had decades of legacy content and plugins contributed by dozens of volunteers. The network is composed of several regional organizations, making the site complex.

WordPressAssociative SectorEcovillagesMultitiered Orgs

02/21-07/22

Community Member

Pirilä Commune

In the forests of East-Finland, cocreated an intentional community exploring themes of sustainability living. Cocreated engaging events for visitors and established a network of likeminded folks in the area.

CommunityHomesteadingSomatics

Life Scientist

Recovering Academic

By training, I am a biomathematician: I was interested in mathematically describing social and biological networks. In the end, I decided I want to do stuff instead of just think about it, and decided to leave academic pursuits for professional practice.

06/14-04/15

Ecology Researcher

MRC, University of Helsinki

Developed a stochastic spatial ecology simulation framework.

RStochastic ProcessesMetacommunity Theory

2009-2013

MSc Biomathematics

University of Vienna

Specialized in stochastic processes and risk management in biological and social networks.

NetworksStochastic ProcessesProbabilityDynamical SystemsGame TheoryPopulation GeneticsPhilosophy of Science

2010-2017

Private Tutor

Freelance

Tutoring children of various ages in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

MathematicsPhysicsPedagogyEmpathy

2005-2009

BSc Mathematics & Physics

University of Utrecht

Double degree covering the basics of the Physics and Mathematics disciplines.

Scientific MethodologyElements of Physics & Mathematics

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