About
I am Artjom. I help companies develop and support their products and establish internal processes for long-term success.
I hold an MSc in Computer Science from the Tallinn University of Technology.
I also develop my own projects and look for new ideas and projects. I am raising a son and a daughter. Two cats and several bee colonies are raising me too.
You may meet me at local meetups and hackathons related to startups and programming - at devclub, TallinnJS, Garage48, Lift99, Palo-Alto, and Technopol. The easiest way to reach me is via LinkedIn. I like coffee ☕️
Technical Stack Experience
| Area | Preferences |
|---|---|
| Languages |  TypeScript,  Go, Python, Ruby, PHP |
| Frontend frameworks |  React, Angular, Backbone |
| API |  GraphQL, REST, GRPC |
| Cache | Redis, Memcached |
| Databases |  Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, AWS RDS, InfluxDB, Clickhouse |
| Async processing |  Redis streams,  Kafka, Elastic, RabbitMQ |
| Search | Elasticsearch, Qdrant |
| Backend frameworks | Fastify, Koa, Express, Gqlgen, Ruby on Rails, Symfony, Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, Yii, Kohana |
| Testing | Go test, Jest, PHPUnit, PyTest |
| Development and support | Just, GitHub workflows, SeleniumRC/Grid, SVN, Git, Jenkins, Webgrind, XDebug, XHProf, Bower, Karma, Grunt, Jasmine |
| Trackers | Jira, GitHub issues, Trello, Pivotaltracker, Mantis |
| Filestorage | AWS S3, Minio |
Profession
I started working in small studios on short projects for clients such as Elisa, SEB, Postimees, GlaxoSmithKline, Eesti Raadio, and Rovio. Then I moved to long-term products such as Navigil and GolfGameBook, and eventually to product startups where one product evolves for years - Tactic, Pipedrive, and Clarifai. This allowed me to go deeper into product design and full-stack quality and grow as a T-shaped full-stack engineer.
Career and Education
My own project: an open-source AI beehive monitoring platform. It started with beekeeping in 2020 and grew into a set of microservices - web app and mobile frame capture, bee counting and queen finding on photos and video, varroa detection, hive sensor telemetry, API router and schema federation. I drive product, architecture, hardware and field testing.
TypeScriptGo
PythonGraphQL
AI/ML
IoT
open sourceGlobal SaaS full-stack platform. Auto-annotation, video processing and livestreaming (MPEG-DASH), annotation search, and labeling/review workflows. Cut PR checks by 50%, participated in on-call rotations and interviews. The team was acquired by Nebius in 2026.
TypeScriptGoPythonAI/ML
video
CI/CD
datasetsSales SaaS unicorn. Mission lead for subscriptions and schema federation, launchpad lead for high-load core services (~12 engineers), initiator of the guild, contributor to the open-source graphql-schema-registry, and onboarding mentor.
GraphQLGo
NodeKafkaRedisReact
high-loadAt the Netron agency, I did full-cycle product development for Tactic Realtime - real-time advertising management. Tactic grew into an independent company and was acquired.
PHPNode.js
Angular
RabbitMQ
realtime
adtechLong-running product projects including Navigil, GolfGameBook, Postimees iPad, Planago, and Nextdays. Built products from scratch with unit, integration, and acceptance tests plus CI.
Backbone
CodeIgniter
MongoDB
WordPress
Drupal
testing
JenkinsMedium-term projects including Rovio.com, Elisa.ee, and Pling.ee. Introduced PHPUnit, Selenium Grid, and CI. Worked with SMS gateways and social networks. The company grew out of Exact.
PHP
YiiMongoDB
Android
SeleniumCIWorked for the Estonian and US markets. Built SSO for all projects and CMS search indexing across dozens of projects, including Masterkeep, Baumax, and Laenuvaidlus. Introduced InnoDB foreign keys, database delta migrations, and Scrum.
PHP
MySQL
jQueryMobile-IDCMSSmall Estonian web studio. Built short-term projects on a custom CMS, including a Google Calendar-style drag-and-drop calendar module, and supported document management for RMK.ee.
PHP
ZendPostgreSQL
Prototype.jsBuilt custom CMS modules and applications with non-trivial algorithms such as tree search and distributed sessions. First experience with Pangalink and WSDL. Projects included SICP, EIQA, and dozens of websites.
PHPMySQL
Oracle
SOAServed in the Estonian Defence Forces (Eesti Kaitsevägi) in parallel with TalTech studies and early web-studio work.
First job: integrated CMS templates and built custom applications such as email campaigns and an SMS gateway, while developing dozens of websites.
PHPSmartyMySQL
CRMStudied in parallel with early studio jobs. The Informatics MSc (2007-2011) continued alongside full-time work.
Tallinn Secondary School No. 6
1993 - 2002Central Russian Gymnasium / TKVG. Competed in physics and mathematics olympiads, including the national Estonian olympiad in Tartu.
Kharkiv Secondary School No. 4
1992 - 1995Pedagogical Lyceum. Overlaps the first years of school in Tallinn.
My Hobbies
I dislike labels and templates. I believe that people should be well-rounded.
Building software and hardware products
- 🤖 AI and machine learning
- 📊 Graphs, visualization, and data processing
- 🦾 Robotics (motor control and vision)
- 🖨️ 3D printing
- 🎮 Video games (creation, engines, game design, lore, animation)
Self-improvement
- 🧠 Second-brain-style memory and note-taking (Obsidian)
- 🎒 EDC (safety and survival)
- 📡 Radio engineering
Science
- 🌌 Astrophysics
- 🦠 Microbiology
- 🐛 Entomology
Reflection
- 🤔 Philosophy
- ✝️ History of religions and faith (Christianity)
- 🚀 Fantasy, science fiction, and futurology
Art
- 🐝 Observing nature (gardening, beekeeping)
- 🎵 Music
- ✏️ Drawing (anatomy, light and shadow, isometry)
Collecting and fetishes
- 🧱 Lego
- ⌚ Wristwatches
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