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Mikko Lehtimäki

Co-founder, Applied AI Engineer

AI scientist and full-stack software engineer with extensive industry and academic experience. Built AI solutions from autonomous robotics to generative AI SaaS.

Introduction

PhD

Mikko is an AI scientist and full-stack software engineer with extensive industry and academic experience. He has built AI solutions from autonomous robotics to generative AI SaaS products in fields such as circular economy, media, health care and B2B analytics.

Mikko has contributed to the leading open-source LLM tools such as LlamaIndex and Guardrails AI as well as advised several AI-native startups. His PhD focused on deep learning and neuroscience to enable whole-brain simulations and novel brain-inspired algorithms for AI.

AI Research
Applied AI
Full-Stack

Some of my articles

AI Engine

6 min read

LLM Wiki: The Compounding Knowledge Base, Explained

An LLM wiki is a knowledge base your AI agents read and maintain: what it is and how to build one.

Imaging

6 min read

Machine Vision in 2026: The Rise of Foundation Models

Foundation models can handle vision tasks from a prompt—but ML fundamentals still matter for production-grade systems.

AI Engine

10 min read

Best Way to Build an AI Engine in 2026

How to build an AI engine for SaaS in 2026. LLM provider and framework comparison with data to guide architecture.

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