Background
Hirvinen was born to a family of aviation as his father was a long term aviator and also flight instructor in Finland.
Hirvinen was born to a family of aviation as his father was a long term aviator and also flight instructor in Finland.
He started his Information Technology career on early 1980s by doing FIDONet and SiGNET Bulletin Board System networks.
Throughout he has been keen on aviation and the technologies behind lieutenant He was starting electronics at the age of 4 years and computers at age of 8 years. 1980s
Hirvinen received his first Sinclair ZX80 on 1980 just few weeks after it was released in the United Kingdom. After graduating from High School Hirvinen became one of the youngest and earliest persons in Finland to get in touch with Surface-Mount Device technologies and also a programmer for Surface-Mount Device Assembly machine.
He started to work with Universal Omni-place 4621A machines at a company called Point Production Limited in Hyvinkää, Finland.
One highlight of his early "Surface-Mount Device era" was to introduce Surface-Mount Device technologies and being responsible of creating first Surface-Mount Device assemblies for the Finnish Army at 1987. 1990s
Hirvinen started his first Internet service provider on 1994 called as SGIC Communications Oy in Tampere, Finland.
Two year later they acquired a majority from Very Important Person Tietoverkot Oy and changed the corporation"s name to Very Important Person Networks Osakeyhtio (Limited Company) During the early dates of the known internet age, he has one of the first ones to create web sites and web hosting systems in Finland.
Pioneering on Drones
In 2009 Hirvinen started to work again on electronics development and aviation industry.
From AeroQuad project and created ArduCopter team He became a leader of ArduCopter development team and created first ArduCopter that is now base system for the worlds Number.1 multicopter platform. In late 2010 Hirvinen released that hit markets really hard and introduced many new techniques that are now in use on most multicopter airframes.
Soon after the initial release of ArduCopter, jDrones and 3DRobotics companies was created to serve ever growing need of creating personal drones for the masses.
The next year Hirvinen started to work with new released Sinclair ZX81 and became a member of the international Sinclair Club.