Toivo
Kallio.
Software that ships,
hardware that flies.
High schooler at Otaniemi, self-taught since elementary school. I've co-founded two companies and most of what I ship is software. The direction is aerospace: a scratch-built VTOL F-35B with a thrust-vectoring nozzle, a can-sized satellite that flew and came back, and my school's new FPV drone club, which I helped set up.
Solmuton
Multi-tenant SaaS platform for managed service providers.
Solmuton bundles device/MDM management, user lifecycle, IT support ticketing, billing, and automated provisioning of a company's digital presence for managed service providers and the small businesses they serve.
- Registered company
- Oy
- MDM platforms
- 3
- Co-founders
- 2
F-35B VTOL RC Jet
A scratch-designed RC F-35B that hovers, transitions, and flies like the real one. Mid-build.
Quadplane-style VTOL under ArduPilot: a front lift fan, a rear 70mm EDF on a three-bearing swivel nozzle for thrust vectoring, and two small roll posts out on the wings. LW-PLA print over carbon spars, with two RP2040s running lights, temperatures, and a cockpit display over MAVLink. The system design is locked and the parts have arrived, sponsored in part by STUHI. The CAD and the hover rig are what's left, and they're the hard part. A foamboard trainer flew first, and crashed twice, to prove the electronics before the real airframe.
- EDFs
- 2 × 70 mm
- Target takeoff weight
- 3.4 kg
- Target cruise
- 80–120 km/h
- Drawing
- F-35B, general arrangement
- Scale
- 1 : 13.3
- Units
- mm, target
OtaMaps
Indoor navigation for schools and large buildings.
ESP32-based Bluetooth beacons and a mobile app for indoor navigation, now used by 900+ registered students at my school.
- Registered students
- 934
- Monthly active
- ~50
- App stores
- 2
CanSat 2026 (Otis-1)
Flew and recovered a can-sized satellite streaming live telemetry over LoRa.
Built with a six-person team for the Finnish CanSat competition — the satellite descended by parachute to roughly 1km altitude, streamed live GPS and sensor telemetry over LoRa, and was tracked and recovered within about 30 minutes.
- Deploy altitude
- ~1 km
- To recovery
- ~30 min
- Person team
- 6
Oikotie
Browser extension that skips the login for Finnish school platforms.
A Chrome and Firefox extension that automates the MPASSid sign-in flow for Kampus, Nova, and Studeo, the learning platforms Finnish schools use. 30+ active users at my school.
- School platforms
- 3
- Browsers
- 2
- Active users
- 30+
VEX V5 Competition Robot
Nationals-finalist competition robot I coded, helped build, and drove.
Wrote the robot's control software, worked on the build and testing with my team, and was the driver in the actual competition matches — 1st place and the Excellence Award at regionals, then 2nd in Alliance Champions and the Think Award at the Finnish national final.
- Regionals
- 1st
- Nationals
- Finalist
- Award
- Think
Bananagrams Assistant
Computer vision tile detection + a C++ backtracking solver.
A YOLO11 model detects Bananagrams tiles from a photo with 96% average confidence, and a custom C++ solver finds optimal word placements via backtracking.
- Mean detection confidence
- 96%
- Detector
- YOLO11
- Solver
- C++
Quantum Bancassurance Optimizer
QAOA-based quantum-classical optimizer for insurance claims triage, tested on real IBM hardware.
Built at a 211-participant hackathon for OP Financial Group — a quantum-classical optimizer, tested on real IBM quantum hardware, that cut simulated insurance-claims triage costs by 3.84% versus a classical baseline.
- Triage cost cut
- 3.84%
- Hackathon participants
- 211
- Quantum hardware
- IBM
Where the work happens.
- 2026 — Present
Co-Founder · Solmuton
Co-founded a multi-tenant SaaS platform for managed service providers.
- 2026 — Present
Core Team · STUHI
Head of Finance on the core team since August 2026, and a generalist beyond that: I build the STUHI website and the Temple platform, represent STUHI at events, and talk ideas through with the rest of the team. The hardware lab is next. Before that I organized events, including Startup Carnival, a 410-person evening with founder panels, startup booths, and networking for Helsinki high schoolers.
- 2025 — Present
Co-Founder & Board Member · OtaMaps
Co-founded the company and built the firmware powering our ESP32 beacons. Incorporated as a nonprofit (OtaMaps ry), and now designing custom BLE beacons to widen coverage at our own school beyond the original plans.
- Jul 2025 — Jul 2026
Co-Founder · Hack Club, Otaniemen lukio
Co-founded Finland's first Hack Club chapter at my school with Rene Saarikko and Farrukhbek Yusupov. We ran a handful of workshops; the chapter has been quiet since.
- 2026 — Present
Founding Member · Otaniemen lukio FPV Drone Club
A teacher started it and secured the school's funding. I picked and ordered the whole kit (7-inch FPV quads, ELRS radios, analog goggles, a thermal camera) and have been there since the first session, mostly fixing what we crash. Now starting the club's sponsorship and site-visit outreach to Finnish drone and aerospace companies.
Judged by other people.
- Jan 202616thDatatähti 2026Finnish Olympiad in Informatics
- Feb 2026FinalistFinnish VEX V5 Robotics ChampionshipREC Foundation · Think Award
- Mar 2026FlownCanSat 2026 (Otis-1)Finnish CanSat Competition
- Oct 202412thNeljän tieteen kisatNational Mathematics Competition (MAOL ry)
On the author.
I'm a high schooler at Otaniemi upper secondary school who has been programming since elementary school. Most of what I know is self-taught: I started by writing automation scripts for games and never really stopped building.
Today I build across the stack. I co-founded OtaMaps, an indoor navigation system 900+ students at my school have registered for, and Solmuton, an IT-as-a-service platform for managed service providers. I'm on STUHI's core team, where I handle the finances and whatever else needs doing, from the website to representing us at events.
What I want to do long term is aerospace. I'm building a VTOL RC F-35B from scratch, flew a CanSat in the Finnish competition, and I'm a founding member of my school's FPV drone club. Most of what I ship today is software, because that's what a 17-year-old can build alone in his room. The plan is to change that.
- Based in
- Espoo, Finland
- School
- Otaniemen lukio, science and maths
- Graduating
- 2027
- Languages
- Finnish, English, French, Swedish