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Freelance programming (2003-); nowadays I'm technically a company. I've participated in embedded systems programming, 3D graphics for TV, WWW services etc. For some idea, check this out.
Kuopion Puhelin Oyj (2000-2003); mostly full-time job at the Internet services department (Raketti): servers, databases, web/wap/sms services, ISP automation etc.
Summer job as programmer trainee (1999) at the department of Chemistry at UKu; worked on Ghemical, a C++/GTK+/OpenGL-based molecular modelling software.
Assistant teacher (1999) at the department of Computer Science at UKu.
Computer Science studies (1996-) at the University of Kuopio; the studies ceased somewhere after the third year because I went to work.
Secondary school finished (1996) at Kuopion Lyseon lukio
Demoscene involvement since 1995 with several awards. Platforms have varied from classic 8-bits to modern operating systems; see my demoscene page for additional information.
Active hobbyist programming since 1984.

Winner of the PC 4K intro competition at the Assembly demoparty in 1997.
Winner of the main demo compo at the Alternative Party in the years 1998, 2002 and 2003 (each time with a VIC-20 demo).
Winner of the oldskool demo compo at the Assembly in the years 2002 and 2003.
Scene.org awards nomination for the best 4K intro of 2003.
1st positions in 64K intro competitions: Abduction 1998, Elevator 2000, Proxy 2001, Lobotomia 2002.

Programming languages: C, C++, Assembly (x86, 6502, m68k, Z80, ARM, PA-RISC etc.), Java, PHP, Perl, Pascal/Delphi, BASIC, sh; also minor experience in countless others such as Forth, Lisp/Scheme, Prolog, Tcl, Python, OPL, Matlab etc.
Mainstream operating systems I've programmed on: UNIX (Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, *BSD), MS-DOS, Windows, MacOS, Symbian OS, PalmOS.
More buzzwords: Apache, CVS, GCC, GTK, HTML/CSS, MySQL, OpenGL, Oracle, LaTEX, SDL, SQL, TCP/IP, X11
Specialities: graphics algorithms (both 2D and 3D), sound synthesis, data compression, manual optimization, creative solutions for unusual problems

Creative activity: writing, computer music, visual arts.
I prefer walking as a means of short-distance transportation.
Spare-time reading and studying; I'm interested in a wide variety of things and phenomena such as sciences, arts, philosophy, languages, cultures, space, animals, plants, human brain, cooking, history, technology, etc. etc.
I'm also concerned about the state of the world and usually prefer ecological choices in my life.
More about my personality can be found on my personal web page.