Hello!

My name is Jani. I was born at Kuusankoski, Finland. I graduated as M.Sc. in 2003 from LUT, Dept. of Information Technology, where I majored in Data Communications.

My M.Sc. thesis was called “Adding Value to Message Mediation in Multioperator MMS Network Architecture”. I did my thesis while working at Intellitel Communications, a subsidiary of TeliaSonera.

I’m currently working for Wind River in Stockholm.

Before that I used to work for Tieto in Sweden, Digia in Finland and Intellitel Communications in Finland.

I’m (still) also a post-graduate student at LUT, concentrating in key management issues in ad-hoc networks (although progress has been very slow due to daily work with unrelated things).

At Gullfoss

My hobbies are computers, music, reading, and some sports (running, indoor climbing, and so on). I also practice ashtanga vinyasa yoga.

I have strong interest in art, artificial intelligence, peer-to-peer networks, evolutionary and biomimetic algorithms and design, emergence in complex systems, cybernetics and various things dealing with cryptology, game theory, some mathematics, and so on.

Sometimes I like to do cooking experiments with various cuisines. Most often than not they tend to be quite edible!

I’m the author of Zenburn, a colorscheme for the Vim editor.

I’ve been a member in The Planetary Society for many years. I’m also a member in EFFI (kind of like Finnish EFF) and FUUG.

You can also read my CV.

You can contact me in various ways. The fastest ones (excluding telephone) are listed below:

IRC

I use the nick slinky (IRCNet). I hang out regularily at #acti, #yoga, #effi, #radarzombies and #cryptology, among other channels. IRC is perhaps the fastest way to contact me during evenings.

E-mail

Remove the NO_SPAM from “slinky at NO_SPAM iki.fi” and you have my address. Encrypt with GPG key 0x13C49F3F if it’s important.

Miscellaneous information about me:

What video game character are you?

“I am Kung Fu Master. I like to be in control of myself. I dislike crowds, especially crowds containing people trying to kill me. Even though I always win, I prefer to avoid fights if possible.”

Countries I’ve visited

Here is a picture of where I’ve been around the world. Airspace visits do not count, land visits do.

South Park figure

Here is a picture of what I looked like when I did appearances in South Park.