Curriculum Vitae
Name: Risto Kupsala
Birthdate: Aug 4, 1979
Contact: risto@kupsala.net
Education
Master of Science, Finnish language and literature
- Minor in General Linguistics
- University of Oulu, Finland
- Sep 2021 – May 2023
Master of Science, Computer science
- Minors in Mathematics and Education
- University of Oulu, Finland
- Sep 2002 – May 2008
Work
Senior Software Engineer
- Company: Elektrobit Automotive
- Location: Oulu, Finland
- 2019 – now
- I have worked as a software architect for Adaptive AUTOSAR software in Time Synchronization, Execution Management and Platform Health Management teams.
Senior Software Engineer
- Company: Nokia
- Location: Oulu, Finland
- 2005 – 2019
- I worked as a tester, programmer, software architect and team leader for 3G and 4G (LTE) software in Local Operations and Management and Layer 2 teams.
Language consultant
- Project: Suonsilmä (Eye of Fen), a 20-minute short film for ELO Film School in Aalto University
- Feb 2022 – May 2022
- I translated the dialogue of the entire film into Samboka, an imaginary, constructed Finno-Ugric language.
Publications
Linguistic articles
Kupsala, R. 2017. Pandunia, a global contact language. Interlinguistica Tartuensis 10, 181-185.
Videos
- Presentation about Pandunia for the webinar held by the Pandunia Scientific Association in Feb 27, 2023 in Shiraz, Iran.
- How to make sentences in Pandunia? Syntactic clause types, 2023.
Theses
- Irakinarabian natiivipuhujien lauserakenteita puhutussa oppijansuomessa (Syntactic structures of native Iraqi Arabic speakers in spoken Finnish learner language), 2023
- Ympäristön epävarmuuden vaikutus ohjelmistokehitysmenetelmän valintaan (How environmental uncertainty affects the choice of software development methodology), 2008
Created languages
- Pandunia: An evenly global auxiliary language. It is an ongoing project that involves many people.
- Panglo or Panglobish: An offshoot of Pandunia that uses words from English in the core vocabulary
- Samboka: A Finno-Ugric conlang that was used in the shortfilm Suonsilmä.