FREELANCER INSIDES Pekka Nikander - Systems Software Developer and Software Architect More interviews with freelancers on www.freelancermap.com...
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“I've written some half a million lines of source code!” This sounds unimaginably, but our freelancer of the week is already an “old hand” in the IT-business. Pekka Nikander is a true generalist, working as a freelance Systems Software Developer and Software Architect… 13.06.2014
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1) First off, can you tell us bit about yourself! I'm a systems software developer and software architect, in my late 40s, living in Helsinki, Finland. I've been programming since 1980, my high school days, when I first had a change to work on a computer. I've been working on most aspects of system software from hardware programming (Verilog) to compilers (GCC, LLVM) and even user interfaces, even though most of my major user-close experiences are from mid 1990s or earlier, and therefore somewhat outdated. 13.06.2014
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1) First off, can you tell us bit about yourself! Altogether I've written some half a million lines of source code, mostly in C but also in a dozen or so other programming languages. Some of my open source contributions, including ones to the Tcl/Tk programming environment and to the Unix kernel, are likely to be still in production use in millions of computers worldwide.
13.06.2014
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1) First off, can you tell us bit about yourself! The longest part of my career I've spend on securityrelated communication protocols; for example, I worked on the Host Identity Protocol (HIP) for seven years while at Ericsson Research. I was a member of the IETF for over a decade, also serving at the IAB (Internet Architecture Board) for one year.
13.06.2014
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1) First off, can you tell us bit about yourself! I've now been part-time freelancing since May 2014, but I've also been doing occasional freelance jobs throughout my career. Besides freelancing, I'm the Chief Software Architect at Senseg, a Research Fellow at Aalto University, and an active member of the Ell-i open source co-operative.
13.06.2014
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