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Jari Komppa is a Finnish engineer with a Bachelor's degree from EVTEK University and extensive experience in graphics hardware development, currently working at Intel Finland. He has held various engineering roles at companies like Siru Innovations and Qualcomm, and has also contributed as a guest lecturer. In addition to his professional work, he has received multiple awards for his programming and design skills in competitions and has a strong passion for computing and various hobby projects.

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Solcv 2022

Jari Komppa is a Finnish engineer with a Bachelor's degree from EVTEK University and extensive experience in graphics hardware development, currently working at Intel Finland. He has held various engineering roles at companies like Siru Innovations and Qualcomm, and has also contributed as a guest lecturer. In addition to his professional work, he has received multiple awards for his programming and design skills in competitions and has a strong passion for computing and various hobby projects.

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal Facts

Name Jari Komppa Phone +358-50-512-4501


Date of birth July 21, 1975 Web site http://iki.fi/sol/
Place of birth Helsinki, Finland EMail sol at iki . fi
Civil status Married Social media Sol_HSA
Address Alingåsinkatu 6
10300 Karjaa
Finland

Education

2004-2008
EVTEK University of Applied Sciences - Espoo, Finland
Bachelor of Engineering (Insinööri (AMK) in Finnish)
Several overkill school projects. Hilights include GalaXQL (an interactive SQL tutorial featuring a 3d
rendered galaxy), 8051 simulator (which replaced the school's old one in classroom use), and the final year
project Atanua (real-time logic simulator for educational purposes).

Work experience

2022 - present
Intel Finland
Staff Engineer
Graphics hardware related tasks.

2011 - 2022
Siru Innovations Oy - Ulvila, Finland
Senior Staff Engineer
Various software and hardware development and research related tasks on graphics hardware.

2006 - 2011
Qualcomm Oy, formerly AMD Finland, formerly ATI Technologies (Finland) - Espoo, Finland
Engineer, Senior
OpenGL ES 2.0 driver development (AMD bought ATI, AMD sold handheld technology to Qualcomm).

2010
Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences - Espoo, Finland
Guest Lecturer
Designed, wrote and presented course on "Practical Game Programming". Evening lectures in English.

2000 - 2006
Fathammer Ltd - Helsinki, Finland
Lead Software Engineer
Main designer and programming lead for Fathammer's multi-platform game engine, X-Forge Core.

2000
3Dion Ltd - Tel-Aviv, Israel
Senior Software Developer
Lead for Java-based scripting engine in a massively multiplayer online role playing game engine.

1998 - 2000
Viherjuuren Verkkoviestintä Oy (later Evia Helsinki) - Helsinki, Finland
Programmer/Web Designer
Did just about everything related to web back then.
Languages

Finnish as a mother tongue, fluent English.

Awards received
Position Contest Year Role
1st Text Mode Demo Contest 20 2017 code, design
2nd Text Mode Demo Contest 19 2016 code, design
1st Text Mode Demo Competition 15 2012 code, design
1st Text Mode Demo Competition 11 2008 code, design
4th Assembly2005 combined demo competition 2005 lead code, design
1st place Ludum Dare 48h game programming contest 2004 solo contest
'innovation'
2nd place 'theme'
4th Assembly2002 combined demo competition 2002 Idea, storywriting
7th Assembly2000 combined demo competition 2000 all code, graphics,
design
2nd Assembly99 3d-accelerated demo competition 1999 lead code, design
1st Assembly98 demo competition 1998 lead code, design
3rd Assembly97 demo competition 1997 lead code

In addition, various placings in online programming contests, including many Ludum Dare games.

Hobbies

Computing, English literature.


Extensive programming hobby since 1988.
Various computer-related hobbies including writing, graphics, music, etc.

Selected hobby projects

I have done (and do) lots of various hobby projects more or less related to computers. Some of the more
high-profile include:

• Ported Remedy's Death Rally from DOS to Windows, published report on the process in Game
Developer Magazine. http://iki.fi/sol/dr_gdm.html
• Designed and coded game for Heureka (The Finnish Science Centre) "move and play" exhibition
(Other people did hardware design & implementation).
• http://www.heureka.fi/portal/englanti/travelling_exhibitions/exhibitions/move_and_play_/
• Written (and writing) various programming and related tutorials – http://iki.fi/sol/tutorials.html
• Written (and writing) a bunch of small games - http://iki.fi/sol/games.html
• Have mentored several beginner programmers online; even visited the wedding of one.
• Experimented a lot with text as art, including organizing a text mode demo competition for over a
decade. http://iki.fi/sol/textfx/
• Designed and built a free, easy to use audio engine http://soloud-audio.com/
• Built a virtual modular synthesizer with user interface of a spreadsheet:
https://sol-hsa.itch.io/sassy
• Various tech projects on the 8 bit retro computer ZX Spectrum Next.

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