Education
Aalto University School of Science Fall 2020 – Present
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Munkkiniemen yhteiskoulu Fall 2016 – Spring 2019
High school, Nordplus International Science Olympiad in Physics (2017 & 2018), MAOL Four Sciences Competition in Physics (2017 & 2018), grant for overall success from Lions Club (2019)
Work
Token Terminal 9/2022 – 2/2026
Early Employee, Senior Data Engineer
Grew ARR from $500k to $6M, we became the first crypto data provider on Bloomberg Terminal, led blockchain research, led platform team, created petabyte-scale data infrastructure
OpenVAA 9/2024 – 5/2025
Student Developer
Designed and implemented AI/ML features for an open-source voting advice application advancing democratic participation
Angomon 9/2021 – 6/2023
Co-Founder
Created #1 trending NFT (digital collectibles) collection, sold out in 2 minutes, project later acquired
Aalto University Department of Computer Science 9/2021 – 12/2021
Teaching Assistant, Programming 1
Sievo 5/2021 – 11/2021
Software Engineer
Analytics Core team, worked on Sievo's procurement data platform
Finnish Air Force 7/2019 – 6/2020
Pilot Reserve Officer (LentoRUK)
Graduated at the top of the class, offered career as fighter pilot (Lentoupseerin koulutusohjelma)
Skills & Interests
Languages
Finnish: Native, English: Fluent, Swedish: Conversational, French: Conversational, Spanish: Elementary
Hobbies
Basketball, surfing, former gymnast and national-level track and field athlete
Contact
samilaakkonen2@gmail.com