Jaan Tollander de Balsch

Experience

2021 - present
CSC - IT Center for Science

Application specialist in the computing environments team, developing and maintaining HPC environments for technical computing software such as Julia and MATLAB. Focus on application containerization, HPC workflow optimization, developing and deploying software containers for projects and user support. Previously completed master’s thesis on monitoring usage of parallel file system.

Supervisors
Sebastian Von Alfthan, Kalle Happonen
2016 - 2021
Systems Analysis Laboratory

Research assistant developing scientific software packages in Julia and Python, such as DecisionProgramming.jl and crowddynamics, based on the research group’s mathematical models and research in the field. Responsibilities included designing, writing, documenting and testing these software packages as well as communicating the design to the other team members.

Supervisors
Fabricio Oliveira, Anton von Schantz

Education

2018 - 2023
Aalto University
Master of Science in Computer Science
Study track in Algorithms, Logic, and Computation
2014 - 2018
Aalto University
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics
Minor studies in Computer Science

Skills

Natural Languages
Finnish (native); English (professional)

Computational Science
Technical computing; Parallel computing; High-performance computing; Mathematical modeling; Optimization; Algorithm design; Logic; Data analysis; Machine learning

Programming
Julia; Bash; Python; C

Software Engineering
Linux; Git; Make; Spack; Nix; Apptainer; Docker; Podman; Lmod; Slurm; Ansible

Tools
Linux terminal; Neovim; Aichat CLI; Claude Code

Certificates & Courses

2025-06-02 - 2025-06-06
System Programming for Linux Containers by Michael Kerrisk
2023-12-16
Foundation in IT Service Management according to FitSM-1 V3

Projects

jaantollander.com
I write about programming, mathematics and productivity on my personal website.

youtube.com/jaantollander
I create video tutorials about programming on my YouTube channel.

Contact

You can contact me via email.