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Kenneth Blomqvist

About

Building robots

Pragmatic. Building simple bots that get the job done. 

Skills

Angel Investing

C++

Computer Vision

Early Stage Companies

Machine Learning

Python

Robotics

Work Experience

ETH Zurich

2019-07 - 2023-10

Workplace
Phd - Autonomous Systems Lab
Location

Zürich

Employement type

fulltime

Recently completed my Phd thesis at the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH

Wolt

2015-03 - 2016-08

Workplace
First employee, software engineer, product owner
Location

Helsinki, Finland

Employement type

fulltime

Joined as the very first employee. Wolt is an on-demand food delivery startup operating in dozens of cities across Europe. At Wolt I was in charge of the logistics software development team where we built a distributed software service for automating and optimizing the dispatching of on-demand food deliveries in multiple cities.

Webflow, Inc.

2014-05 - 2014-12

Workplace
Software engineer
Location

San Francisco, California

Employement type

fulltime

Joined as the third employee. Worked on programming the Webflow designer tool and the visual content management system now known as Webflow CMS.

Junction Hackathon

2016-12 - 2020-01

Workplace
Board Member
Location

Helsinki, Finland

Employement type

unknown

I founded the Junction hackathon and we later spun it out from Aalto Entrepreneurship Society as a subsidiary of the Startup Foundation. As a board member I help guide the long-term strategy of the company, help with recruiting and other tasks when needed. This is work is done purely pro-bono.

Academic Experience

ETH Zurich -

 

2019.07 - 2023.10

Philosophical Doctorate, PhD in Robotics

Aalto University -

 

2017.01 - 2019.02

Master of Science, MSc in Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence