Mikko Karvonen

Chief Product Officer, Co-founder @ Immersal

About

Specialised in distinct aspects and technologies of digital media and electronic music, with professional experience since 1997. Valuable international tech startup experience in both Barcelona, where I lived for 5 years, and in current residence Helsinki. Some keywords and specialties: iOS, mobile, apps, augmented reality (AR/MR/XR), Unity, games, digital audio signal processing, client-server architectures, RIA development, technical project management, music information retrieval, agile methods & scrum way of working. Fluent programming skills in, e.g., Swift, Objective-C, C#, ActionScript 3 / Flex, Java, PHP, Node.js, Lua, DHTML & JavaScript & CSS (aka HTML 5), CoffeeScript, Python, MATLAB. MySQL, PostgreSQL & MSSQL databases. AmigaOS/Mac OS X/Windows/Linux operating systems. Logic Studio, Ableton Live, Renoise & Pro Tools Digital Audio Workstations. And of course Bars & Pipes Professional.

Country

Finland

City

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Objective-C, JavaScript, ActionScript, CSS, MySQL, Web Development, PHP, Scrum, Mobile Applications, Sound, Python, Programming, Java, Open Source, HTML, PostgreSQL, AJAX, Music, Mobile Devices, Social Media

Experience

Chief Product Officer, Co-founder

Immersal

2018-9 - Present · 8 yrs

Helsinki

Co-Founder

Immersal

2016-8 - Present · 10 yrs 1 mo

Helsinki Area, Finland

COO, Co-founder

Immersal

2018-5 - 2018-9 · 5 mos

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Acted as an Interim COO.

CTO, Co-founder

Immersal

2016-10 - 2018-5 · 1 yr 8 mos

Helsinki Area, Finland

http://www.immersal.com/

UX Tech Lead, Co-founder

Immersal

2016-8 - 2016-9 · 2 mos

Helsinki Area, Finland

Founding Member

Open AR Cloud

2018-10 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

Participant, AR Cloud Committee

VRARA

2018-8 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

Owner, Senior Consultant, Producer / Composer

Crankshaft

2001-10 - Present · 24 yrs 11 mos

Consultant work for a number of companies during the years. Lately I have been consulting several Finnish Web Music Startups, such as SongHi, Hitlantis and Musopia. Other clients: Valio, Mountain Sheep, SEK & GREY, White Sheep, Mindworks, YATTA, Kasino Creative Studio, Knockout, MJÖLK, Dicole, ADDLAB, Great Apes, Fake Graphics, etc. Also producing electronic music under the Crankshaft moniker. http://soundcloud.com/crankshaft

Founder / Member of Board

katastro.fi

1998-7 - Present · 28 yrs 2 mos

One of the founding and active members of katastro.fi, a Finnish media arts organisation that is currently living a dormant phase. Our 15 minutes of fame consisted of, e.g., Young Art in Finland Award, several governmental grants, big scale productions for art exhibitions and biennials such as ArtGenda, Sónar, Koneisto, Avanto Festival and whatnot. http://www.katastro.fi/

Partner

Luup Culture

2015-2 - 2016-9 · 1 yr 8 mos

Helsinki, Finland

http://get.luup.tv

Senior Consultant

Sauma Technologies Oy

2009-11 - 2010-3 · 5 mos

Single-handedly executed several Flex and audio production client projects for Sauma.

Señor Programmer

Sauma Technologies Oy

2008-9 - 2009-11 · 1 yr 3 mos

Flex client, Java logic server, PHP Web all-around programmer in an ambitious project aiming to be the largest browser-based MMOG in the world: Hours of War. Responsible for several tasks requiring special expertise, such as audio DSP for the sound engine and communication protocols. The company was unable to raise finance in time for completion.

Consultant

Fake Production

2008-2 - 2008-7 · 6 mos

Developing a prototype version of an internal project management tool, using CakePHP and AJAX.

Vice President, Engineering

Splice

2006-1 - 2007-8 · 1 yr 8 mos

Splice was a Web Music Startup company way ahead of its time. Founded in 2006 with the development team in Barcelona and the management team in Chicago, we were the first ones to build a real Digital Audio Workstation solution on top of Flash Player, working entirely within the browser. And this was before Flash 10, which actually has some support for this kind of stuff, so you can only imagine the amount of hackery required. Unfortunately the company failed to find financing. Lately, several new companies have came up with similar services, such as Audiotool, SongHi, Remix Galaxy and Geisha Music.

Developer & Audio Designer

White Sheep

2003-2 - 2007-8 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Education

University of Helsinki

Computer Science

1998 - 2008 · 10 yrs

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Digital Communication

2003 - 2004 · 1 yr

20 credits of minor subject studies in the PhD in Computer Science and Digital Communication programme, run by professor Xavier Serra. The studies consisted of music technology (computer music, digital audio signal processing, etc.), image processing, computer graphics, computer networks, artificial intelligence and logic.