Hi, I'm Sami. I'm writing this short "business-relevant" biography with the intention to bring more context to my more traditional CV, which you can also find here. I am deeply curious and driven to push the limits of consciousness and the experience of life. My core values are to live with joy, compassion, and to think without limits.

I started coding at a young age. What hooked me wasn't just the technology. It was the creativity. To me, code felt like painting or composing music, just expressed through mathematics and logic. By high school, I was already earning a small salary as a game developer at an Indian mobile games studio, building real products for real users.

I've always gravitated toward mathematics, technology, and science. It probably runs in the family: my grandfather was a math teacher, his brother a physics professor, my uncle is a professor of artificial intelligence, and so on. In high school, I competed in national and international physics olympiads, which trained me to think rigorously and love hard problems.

For most of my childhood, though, my dream was to fly fighter jets.

In high school, I set my sights on pilot training in the Finnish Air Force (LentoRUK). After a rigorous year-long selection process, I was accepted.

I loved every second of flying and graduated at the top of my class. I was offered a career as a fighter pilot — and then made one of the hardest decisions of my life: I turned it down.

As much as I loved flying, I felt a stronger pull toward creating — toward exploring the intersection of mathematics, technology, and philosophy.

So at 20, I began studying computer science at Aalto University. During my first year, I joined a Finnish data company, Sievo, as a software engineer.

In 2021, I discovered crypto, along with the fun (and admittedly chaotic) world of NFTs. Together with one of my closest friends, I co-founded Angomon, a 3D digital collectibles project. Our idea was simple but ambitious: NFTs that could be 3D printed in the physical world and used as avatars across emerging metaverse platforms.

We launched a collection of 3,500 collectibles. It sold out in about two minutes and became the #1 collection on Solana at the time, helping pioneer the blueprint for 3D digital collectibles.

Angomon was later acquired by a group of metaverse builders who continued developing the project, shifting its focus toward avatars and digital identity.

Through Angomon, I was recruited to a Helsinki-based crypto analytics startup called Token Terminal. My three years there were the most pivotal of my career so far.

When I joined, the company generated roughly $500k in annual revenue. During my time there, we scaled to $6M ARR, with essentially the same team size. I worked primarily as a senior data engineer but wore many hats: leading blockchain research, heading the platform team, and serving as a founding engineer of our data pipeline. We launched as the first crypto analytics platform on the Bloomberg Terminal, and fed data directly to the likes of Binance, CoinGecko, and Messari, counting up to ~100M monthly visitors.

My most significant effort was leading the integration of Solana, one of the hardest data challenges in blockchain analytics. Solana generates more data in days than Ethereum has generated in its entire history. We're talking petabyte-scale infrastructure. The kind of scale where you half-jokingly consider shipping hard drives by truck instead of sending data over the internet.

Building that system on Google BigQuery remains one of my proudest technical achievements. So much so that Google themselves reached out, asking us to help them build their own public Solana dataset. And so Google became our customer, and I ended up delivering those same enhancements directly into Google's infrastructure.

Token Terminal remains one of the most respected data platforms for blockchain analytics. As Sui Chung of CF Benchmarks put it: "At CF Benchmarks we have found Token Terminal to be the best of breed of blockchain data providers."

When I joined Token Terminal in early 2022, ChatGPT hadn't even launched yet. By 2026, AI had reshaped the entire technological landscape. After three and a half intense, formative years, I felt I had achieved what I set out to do there. It was time to build again.

So in February 2026, I made another difficult decision: I left a company I deeply cared about, and a team I'm incredibly grateful to, to start my next chapter.

Today, I'm working in AI.

What draws me isn't just the pace of progress. It's the questions it raises. For the first time, our constraints are becoming less technological and more philosophical. What should we create? How should we use it? Who gets to decide?

I believe Europe needs to be part of that conversation, not on the sidelines while the U.S. and China shape the future. This level of power demands pluralism. More perspectives. More independence. More agency.

That's the mission I'm on now.