Juha Laitinen

Juha Laitinen has extensive work experience in the gaming industry, particularly in game programming and software engineering roles. Their most recent position was as the Lead Game Programmer at Mainframe Industries since December 2020. Prior to that, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at the same company from August to December 2020. Before joining Mainframe Industries, Juha worked at Next Games as a Principal Game Programmer from March 2019 to August 2020 and as a Senior Game Programmer from March 2016 to August 2020. At Solu Machines, they served as the Lead Frontend Developer from February 2015 to February 2016. Juha gained experience as a Senior Game Programmer and a Game Programmer at Remedy Entertainment from August 2012 to January 2015 and from August 2012 to June 2014, respectively. Juha's earlier work experience includes being a Lead Programmer at Virtual Air Guitar Company Oy from January 2007 to September 2012, a Software Engineer at Nokia Corporation from December 2005 to December 2006, a Research Assistant at Helsinki University of Technology from May 2004 to December 2005, a Software Engineer at i4Synergy Oy in May 2003 to August 2003, and a Software Engineer at Fishpool Creations Oy from December 2001 to December 2002.

Juha Laitinen earned a M.Sc degree in Interactive Digital Media with a minor in Software Engineering and Business from Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan, where they studied from 1999 to 2006. Additionally, they obtained a Certified Scrum Master certification in 2006.