Whoami?

I was born in Porvoo on September 1, 1969 and lived there for nineteen years. I embarked on my academic career at the Helsinki University of Technology in the Computer Science program in 1988. I finished my Master's Thesis in May 1996 and received my Master's degree in November 1996. I live in Helsinki, Finland and work on iOS application programming and other related things in my own little company.

Previous Lives

In my last position at Nokia I worked as the Operating System Architect at Nokia's Maemo Devices unit. I left the company in May 2009 to pursue more personal interests. I worked as a Senior Specialist at Nokia Networks in various software architecture and software development positions before joining the Nokia Multimedia business group's Internet Tablet development. Before switching to Nokia Networks' Switching Platforms (pun intended) I worked in the Nokia Research Center Communication Systems lab first as a Research Engineer and later on as an Assistant R & D Manager.

I worked on CORBA, Mach, and ATM as a research assistant in the COMAS project at the HUT CS lab before joining Nokia Research Center.

Before that I worked as an R & D software engineer in a Finnish software company called Tekla.

A long time ago I worked in New Generation Software. I also worked as a teaching assistant and a Unix administrator at the HUT CS lab.

Things that I'm interested in

Professionally

• iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
• Activity Tracking and wearables
• High availability
• Operating systems, microkernels
• Network performance, IP, IPv6, routers
• Real-time embedded systems
• Chorus, OSF MK, Mach, Real-time Mach, Lites
• FreeBSD, NetBSD

Personally

• My dear family: Helka, Tuuli, and Hässler.
• I play rock'n'roll bass in Salty Dogs and The Baltic Badasses. It took me over 31 years to find out I'm really a bass player at heart. Here are some jokes about bass players in Finnish.
• I listen to all kinds of music, some of my favorites are:
  • Zappa is not dead, he just smells funny
  • Rory Gallagher
  • Neil Young
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • AC/DC (esp. the Bon Scott era stuff)
  • Other blues and blues-based rock
  • Beethoven
  • Stravinsky
• I like good coffee.
• I like Single Malt Whisky, especially Lagavulin:
  
  
  Time, say the Islanders, takes out the fire but leaves in the warmth
   
• Sometimes I also read books by Vonnegut, Irving, Bukowski, Kundera, Hornby, Tervo, Hotakainen, and miscellaneous sci-fi.
• I like going to the movies.
• I do sports: running, football (soccer for you americans), inline skating, bandy, skiing, cycling; basically anything goes.
• I use Apple Macs  , the iPhone and the iPad.
• I drive a  
• I used to work on Maemo and the Internet Tablets.
• I used to use The One True Editor, GNU Emacs (M-x praise-emacs), and its more advanced cousin XEmacs quite a lot, but nowadays other tools have replaced it at least partly.
• I used to use Irchat, an IRC client for Emacs.
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• I used to use VTWM, my own version of the VTWM virtual window manager for X when I was using X as my desktop.
• IKI, I'm one of the six founding members.
• OtaDATA (R.I.P)

Still interested?

Send some email.

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Jukka Partanen jtp@iki.fi / cletus on IRC, channel #42