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                           Kalle Valo

Name and contact information

Kalle Valo, Aisatie 5, 37470 Vesilahti, Finland
GSM: +358 50 486 8410
Email: kalle.valo@iki.fi
Homepage: http://www.valot.fi/kalle/
Time and place of birth: 1977-06-16 Paimio, Finland
Nationality: finnish
Marital status: married, two daughters (ages two and four)

Areas of specialisation and interest

  * 9 years of professional experience of Linux, 13 years as a
    hobby
  * 9 years of professional programming experience, of which
    three years Linux kernel programming
  * Enthusiastic Open Source supporter and contributor
  * Embedded and mobile devices
  * Data communications and protocols: IEEE 802.11, TCP/IP

Work experience

Kernel Engineer, Nokia Oyj
    1.9.2006-present

    Responsible for Wi-Fi device drivers and lower level user
    space components, as well as tests and calibration executed
    in production lines for Nokia 770, N800, N810 and N900 Linux
    based Internet tablets. The work includes design,
    implementation, bug fixing and acting as the primary
    technical contact for the hardware vendors.

    Working with ARM based TI OMAP SoC 1710, 2420 and 3430
    platforms on embedded devices, with taking into account the
    constraints (for example power consumption). Knowledge of
    the SPI bus.

    The original idea, design and implementation of using
    mac80211 architecture in Nokia internet tablets. For N800
    and N810, the driver stlc45xx published under GPLv2 at http:
    //stlc45xx.garage.maemo.org/ and now worked on as an open
    project. For N900, with TI wl1251 chipset the driver is
    wl12xx and it was published in February 2009. Implemented
    mac80211 improvements needed by the mobile devices, for
    example power save mode support and beacon filtering.

Software Design Engineer, Nokia Oyj
    15.5.2004-31.8.2006

    Working on Nokia Internet tablets as an integration and
    testing engineer in the Connectivity team at Open Source
    Software Operations. Design, implementation and maintenance
    of various network related components, including proprietary
    Internet Connectivity Daemo (icd), dnsmasq and udhcp. Debian
    packaging.

    Designed and implemented libconic, a public API for
    accessing Internet connections in Nokia Internet Tablets:
    http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.0/libconic/

    Involved with Wi-Fi certifications, running tests and
    solving problems.

System Architect, Radionet Oy
    7.3.2003-30.4.2004

    Designing and implementing Rose, an in-house embedded Linux
    distribution for Wi-Fi environments. Developing software for
    Wi-Fi base stations. CVS administrator and build engineer.
    Technical responsible in Tekes funded Vertical Handover
    project.

Network Specialist, CRF Box Ltd.
    10.5.2001-14.12.2001

    Administration of Linux servers and project installations,
    including WAP/SMS gateways, Apache Tomcat Java Servlet
    containers and IBM DB2 databases.

Software Developer, Wapit Ltd.
    3.1.2000-27.4.2001.

    Developing methods for authentication and billing for mobile
    devices in Java. Developing WAP and SMS services. Product
    installations both in-house and with customers. Product
    testing and problem solving. Administration of intranet
    servers.

Summer Employee at IT-department, Evac Ltd.
    24.5.1999-31.8.1999.

    User support and guidance. Windows workstation and server
    installation and administration.

Trainee in IT-support, Varsinais-Suomen TE-keskus
    15.10.1997-31.8.1998.

    User support and guidance. Windows workstation and server
    installation and administration. Designed scalable virus
    protection setup for a multi-site network.

Education

2010       Helsinki University of Technology, department of
(est.)

           Electrical and Communications Engineering

           (major Software Engineering, minor Telecommunications
           Software)

           Estimated graduation January 2010, Master of Science
           degree,

           currently working on Master's thesis, pending final
           review,

           studying part-time while working

1996       Matriculation examination, Secondary school of Paimio

Technical skills

Programming languages
    C, Python, shell-scripts, ARM assembly, plus various others
    (C++, Java, Perl)
Networks and protocols
    LAN administration, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, DNS, IPv6, IEEE
    802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.1x, PKI
Documentation
    HTML, CSS, SGML, XML, Docbook, L^ATEX
Software/UNIX
    GCC, GDB, GTK+, GLib, Emacs, VI, Make, UNIX-tools, Git,
    Stgit, Subversion, CVS, Autoconf, Automake, Dpkg, Apt
Operating Systems
    Linux (both as user and administrator), Windows 95/NT/XP
    (mostly as administrator)

Hobbies

  * Spending time with the children
  * Working in Linux wireless community, maintainer of
    at76c50x-usb wireless driver, contributor to mac80211
  * Administration of a personal server http://www.valot.fi/ and
    workstations running Debian

Language skills

Finnish:  mother tongue

English:  very good

Swedish:  fair

German:   basic


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Kalle Valo 2009-10-04