My Work Experience
Skills
I am an MSc candidate in Health Technology Engineering at Aalto University (Health Robotics and Signal Processing), with coursework and thesis completed and my graduation request pending.
Oct 2025 - Research Assistant, Aalto University.
Development of an AI summarization platform (RAG, vector DB, ASR, Pydantic AI, Docker) and research on code-switching TTS with diffusion Transformers.
Apr 2025 - Sep 2025 - Master's Thesis Worker, Aalto University.
Thesis on detecting and mitigating hallucinations in LLMs within RAG pipelines.
May 2024 - Business Management, Pohjolan Polte Oy.
Founder. Accounting, food R and D, production, and regulation.
Jan 2022 - Web Development and IT Support, kovanen.io.
Client sites with SvelteKit migrations, SEO and analytics, accessibility improvements, and ongoing IT support.
2017 - 2021 - Summer jobs: Property maintenance.
Kotikatu Oy, Porin Kiinteistopalvelu, Eurajoen Kiinteistopalvelu Oy. Groundskeeping, yard cleaning, and light vehicle operation.
Earlier roles include internships at K-Supermarket (Tampere Villila) and Tampere Theatre, plus two children's TV productions on Pikkukakkonen (Taitoset, Lumiukko). The Taitoset page is still available here: Taitoset.
You can download my resume in PDF form here: SakuKovanen_Resume
