Heikki Mahkonen
Enterprise Systems Engineer
REDONDO BEACH,CA
Summary
Versatile Systems Engineer with over 20 years of cross-functional research, development and leadership in implementation, validation and deployment of large complex systems. Exceptional knowledge of network, telecommunications, information and software technologies. Well-versed in large-scale deployments, migrations and data storage solutions in production environments.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Enterprise Systems Engineer
Meta
Fremont, CA
01.2022 - Current
- Leading role in multiple fullstack software projects; tooling for employee VR headset program, data pipelines and dashboards for external SaaS platforms and automation and bot framework for no/low code bots
- Lead the architecture and software design for development projects
- Technical project management and mentoring of junior team members
- Experience in Hack, React, Python and C++ languages
Lead Backend Architect
Ericsson
Playa Vista, CA
06.2020 - 01.2022
- Responsible for backend architecture for innovative 5G network solutions targeted for CSP customers
- Lead development of architecture, cloud and microservice deployment environment, backend services, data storage layer and monitoring framework
- Responsible for working together with product owners to get from requirements to working solutions
- Innovation: 5 filed patent applications
- Onboarded, trained and mentored backend teams
- Experience with Java Spring Boot, Azure, Kubernetes, Python, Prometheus, Grafana
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, United States
10.2018 - 06.2020
- Worked as embedded SRE on multiple LinkedIn Talent Solution products e.g. Recruiter, Hiring Platform and Talent Insights. Recruiter product constitutes 70% of LinkedIn revenue.
- Oncall responsibilities for Talent Solution stack
- Responsibilities as an embedded SRE include scalability, reliability, deployment and fullstack SW engineering work.
- Leading role in LinkedIn resume parser backend implementation and deployment work.
- Expertise gathered in redlining production services and graceful degradation of customer facing services.
- Experience Java Play, ember.js, Python, C++
Master Researcher
Ericsson
Santa Clara, United States
07.2013 - 10.2018
- Driving role in Ericsson Garage, a new business incubator.
- Project management and software development in Serverless
NFV research project - Part of an Ericsson team working on Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management
(UTM). - Research work on 3GPP radio network architecture for UAS use cases.
- Research and software development work on Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
- Leading role in implementation of Ericsson Virtual Enterprise Gateway trial system for a customer in Australia.
- Experience gained in OpenStack, OpenDaylight and ONOS SDN controllers, DPDK, and OpenVSwitch.
- Research and development of novel network and cloud monitoring techniques in Diamond research project.
- Research, development and management in Lightning and Quark research projects on lightweight NFV utilizing Unikernel technologies.
- Research on advanced model driven engineering and development methods for future Ericsson product platforms.
Senior Researcher
Ericsson, Finland
Jorvas, Finland
06.2000 - 07.2013
- Various research and software development projects and topics from video coding, 3GPP networking, TCP/IP, IP
routing and mobility to Internet of Things, VoIP, embedded systems. - Short Term Assignment in Beijing (1.4.2011 –
1.10.2011) where worked with customers on IPv6 migration and as a team leader in SW development of IoT field trial. - Research work and leading role in various EU research projects (Celtic COMMUNE, EFiPSANS, Ambient Networks).
- Software development experience (C) on GPU routing PoC where implemented a IPv4 and IPv6 LPM algorithm inside Nvidia GPU using CUDA libraries.
- Software development experience on Linux video server, client and mixer software (C, C++, Java) for IPv6 demonstrations.
- Software development experience on Linux kernel and userspace (C, C++, yacc, lex) networking in Mobile IPv6, Dualstack MIPv6, Proxy MIPv6 and Simultaneous Multiaccess and vertical handover PoCs.
- Software development experience (C, Java, OSGi, Maven, Python, HTTP, CSS, Javascript) on multiple IoT device and gateway PoCs and customer trials in Finland and in China.
Education
Master of Science - Networking And Software Engineering
Helsinki University of Technology
Helsinki, FInland 08.1998 - 03.2006
Skills
C/C
Certification
Ericsson Certified Associate - SDN
Timeline
Enterprise Systems Engineer
Meta
01.2022 - Current
Lead Backend Architect
Ericsson
06.2020 - 01.2022
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
LinkedIn
10.2018 - 06.2020
Remote Pilot License
03-2017
Ericsson Certified Associate - SDN
09-2015
Master Researcher
Ericsson
07.2013 - 10.2018
Senior Researcher
Ericsson, Finland
06.2000 - 07.2013
Master of Science - Networking And Software Engineering
Helsinki University of Technology
08.1998 - 03.2006
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