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Engagement

Beyond the development of open-source software, I contribute to teaching and lesson development, mentor students in open-source programmes, stay active in research software engineering, and work myself into new areas to improve my skill set.

Teaching & mentoring
Carpentries lesson maintainer
Carpentries

HPC Workflow Management with Snakemake: Carpentries Incubator lesson on building reproducible HPC pipelines with Snakemake; covering rules, cluster execution, and workflow patterns on shared compute systems.

Lesson
Tutorial at StanCon 2026
Co-instructor Stan

StanCon 2026 tutorial on contributing to Stan's C++ and OCaml core, R interfaces, and development workflow; using good-first issues to guide participants toward their first merge.

StanCon 2026 · Uppsala · 17–21 August 2026

Tutorial Conference
Google Summer of Code 2026
Mentor Stan

Global programme that pairs contributors with open-source organizations for a paid, mentored summer of software development on real project codebases.

2026

Project
Upcoming Events
CITCON:AI Europe 2026

Open Space conference where practitioners discuss continuous improvement in software development, delivery, operations, and AI.

Helsinki · 22–23 May 2026

Event
Secure Systems Demo Day 2026
HAIC

Annual HAIC showcase of information-security research in the Helsinki capital region; research talks, poster demos, industry desks, and networking across academia and industry.

Aalto University, Espoo · 5 June 2026

Event
Professional development
Introduction to cybersecurity
FITech

Course on cybersecurity goals, cryptography, firewalls, application security, and the evolution of malware, University of Turku.

Online · In progress

Course
Introductory penetration testing
FITech

Course on penetration-testing foundations, techniques and tools for web, network, cloud, and IoT security, plus reporting standards and regulatory context.

Jun-Aug 2026

Course
Developing Secure Software
OpenSSF

Course on secure requirements, design, implementation, verification, and supply-chain practices—helping developers build software hardened against common attacks.

Online · In progress

Course

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