Profession

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.

TypeScriptGoPythonGraphQLAI/MLIoTopen source

Global 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/MLvideoCI/CDdatasets

Sales 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.

GraphQLGoNodeKafkaRedisReacthigh-load

At 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.jsAngularRabbitMQrealtimeadtech

Long-running product projects including Navigil, GolfGameBook, Postimees iPad, Planago, and Nextdays. Built products from scratch with unit, integration, and acceptance tests plus CI.

BackboneCodeIgniterMongoDBWordPressDrupaltestingJenkins

Medium-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.

PHPYiiMongoDBAndroidSeleniumCI

Worked 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.

PHPMySQLjQueryMobile-IDCMS

Small 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.

PHPZendPostgreSQLPrototype.js

Built 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.

PHPMySQLOracleSOA

Served in the Estonian Defence Forces (Eesti Kaitsevägi) in parallel with TalTech studies and early web-studio work.

Studied in parallel with early studio jobs. The Informatics MSc (2007-2011) continued alongside full-time work.

Central Russian Gymnasium / TKVG. Competed in physics and mathematics olympiads, including the national Estonian olympiad in Tartu.

Pedagogical Lyceum. Overlaps the first years of school in Tallinn.