Tapani Kaarela
Software Engineer, SpecialistTapani has been working in the Symbio Oulu office for six years. He works with Symbio connected car, more known as SCC. The SCC is being used in Elysian, which is Symbio's innovative product related to smart vehicles. SCC helps to add different functionalities to the car's middle console as easily. Users can attach their phones with SCC and get maps, music, call logs, and other personal information for every modern car model. Tapani does programming, integration, advice with technical issues, and the integration process with car manufactures and partners. In addition to SCC, Tapani has been in different projects in the automotive and power distribution sectors in Symbio.
"The best thing is to make products. You can get your products to the world in the daily life of users. The work before the release and entering the market is hard, and after it is the most rewarding feeling. There are two to three million cars in the world that have Symbio's software inside them."
In Symbio, we are a smaller firm with a fair amount of hierarchy and bureaucracy that affects every day. Tapani has a small team with a self-direct type of doing things and good spirit. There are many projects so people can do diverse tasks.
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