Leo Varis is a Finnish software engineer and competitive programmer. He represented Finland at the International Olympiad in Informatics in both 2022 (rank 174, bronze) and 2023 (rank 101, bronze). He now works as a Software Engineer at G-Research in London, after founding-team work on the OB-1 coding agent at OpenBlock and backend engineering at Unity in Helsinki. He studied mathematics and computer science at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.
Software Engineer at G-Research. Finnish IOI competitor (bronze 2022 and 2023); former founding-team member at OpenBlock (OB-1 AI coding agent) and backend engineer at Unity.
Part of the founding team building the OB-1 AI agent.
* Contributed to development of OB-1, a self-improving autonomous coding agent capable of handling the full software lifecycle
Software Engineer at Unity
Helsinki
* Developed and maintained backend services for Unity Ads using Go in a distributed systems environment.
* Built and improved APIs and internal services supporting high-throughput
Military Service at Puolustusvoimat - Försvarsmakten - Finnish Defence Forces
United Kingdom
Completed my mandatory military service.
Software Developer Internship at Unity
United Kingdom
I was developing software related to Unity Ads. Most of the software is written in Go. After the internship it was agreed that I will continue at Unity after finishing my studies.
Software Developer at University of Helsinki
United Kingdom
For the most part I continued with the course feedback system project that was started in 2021. Later during the spring I moved to work on another project.
Teaching Assistant at University of Helsinki
United Kingdom
I worked as a teaching assistant in multiple courses at the University of Helsinki. Most of my teaching was with courses "Data structures and algorithms" and "Database application
Trainee at Huld
Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland
I worked on a Python library used internally at the company. I made improvements to the library and in the end upgraded several projects to use the new version.
Education
Aalto University
University of Helsinki
Martinlaakson lukio
AchievementsRepresented Finland at IOI 2022 and IOI 2023, winning bronze both years
AwardsIOI 2023 Bronze medal - rank 101/350, 216.0 pts, representing Finland · IOI 2022 Bronze medal - rank 174, 147.3 pts, representing Finland · BOI (Baltic Olympiad in Informatics) 2022 silver medal
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