# Elias Nurmela

> Developer and entrepreneur from Finland building products where software meets real-world operations. Co-Founder & CEO of Fiest, founder of Tekoäly Oy (Tekly).

- Based in Helsinki, Finland
- Email: elias@fiest.io
- [GitHub](https://github.com/enurmela)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/enurmela)
- [Fiest](https://fiest.io)
- [Tekly (Tekoäly Oy)](https://www.tekly.fi)

## Pages

- [Home](https://eljn.dev): profile, experience, education, projects, photography, running and live GitHub and Spotify widgets
- [Thesis](https://eljn.dev/thesis): Data Sensitivity-Based LLM Routing: Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Enterprise AI
- [Photos](https://eljn.dev/photos): photography gallery

## Now

- Co-Founder & CEO, [Fiest Oy](https://fiest.io) (2024 — Present)
- Founder, [Tekoäly Oy](https://tekly.fi) (Jan 2023 — Present)

## Education

- MSc — Bioinformatics and Digital Health, Aalto University (Aug 2022 — Aug 2026)
- Erasmus Exchange — Instituto Superior Técnico, Aalto University (Feb 2023 — Jul 2023)
- BSc — Chemical Engineering, Aalto University (2019 — 2022)

## Optional

- [Full profile](https://eljn.dev/llms-full.txt): experience, education, projects, hackathons and the thesis in full