me

I'm not much of a talker, but let me rant about myself for a bit. You can skip ahead to:

My full curriculum vitae can be viewed here and downloaded through the following link: download CV.pdf.

superpowers

I'm an aspiring full-stack developer (with a front-ended tilt). I'm interested in all kinds of visual communication, but my major focus is on designing web applications & interfaces. I love (and preach) all things JavaScript, semantic HTML, the power of CSS & progressive enhancement. Lately I've really enjoyed tinkering with:

  • Blender
  • Vue.js ♥
  • Svelte ♥
  • PWAs and service-workers
  • Various bundlers, with a focus on bundling & performance optimisations
  • Headless CMS-s and Static-site generators
    • Metalsmith
    • Vuepress Vitepress ♥
    • Eleventy
    • Saber
    • Gridsome
  • Serverless
  • Golang
  • ESM build tools (Vite, Snowpack)

I work great with designers (challenging their perspective on things), other devs or less-techy folk (pretty sure that's the technical term for it).

I've also dabbled in other fields (and hope to perfect them in the future), like:

  • automation & shell scripting
  • web performance
  • CI & CD
  • agile thinking & rapid iteration
  • accessibility
  • security
  • UNIX-based systems
  • dockerisation, Kubernetes
  • UX & user flow
  • interaction design

education

Being a self-claimed autodidact, I consider myself a proud drop out. Instead of going the standard university route (BSc, MSc, internships, etc.), I pivoted and spent my time tinkering on small private projects, reading books & articles and listening to podcasts.

My biggest educational growth though were the first few months at my first job and I believe my hunger for knowledge has sky-rocketed ever since. I also love meetups and conferences (...it's the free stickers).

If you care about the more official part of this, here's a rundown:

  • CS at Tallinn University of Technology
    • quit June 2015
    • I in no way mean to bad-mouth, but the (at the time) outdated curriculum and narrow-minded teachers left me wanting more. I've listed the relevant completed courses under my LinkedIn profile.
  • Hardcore developer training at PluralSight
    • attended May 2015
    • A thorough overview of a web developer's stack before PluralSight expanded their training courses.
  • Certificate in Full Stack Development at Free Code Camp
    • Spring 2015
  • Exact Science Field at Old Town Educational College (Secondary education)
    • Graduated June 2012

favourite learning resources:

Podcasts

News/article feeds

labor

I like fiddling small components and scripts on codepen, jsfiddle, gist and on my Arduino.

* Unfortunately, I can't show most of my past work on here for legal reasons. It's good stuff though.

I started out creating websites for neighbours and small companies, which really sparked a passion. Here's what I've been up to since:

  • Product engineer @ Klaus July 2018 - present
    • Klaus is a SaaS product that lets customer support agents conduct conversation reviews. Besides the main app, I also wrote and manage Klaus' browser extensions, a Zendesk app and a couple of other small widgets. I advocate open-source, best practises, progressive enhancement and security to the best of my abilities and try to integrate them into the developer culture that we are still shaping.
  • Technical consultant @ Bigbank July 2018 – June 2019
  • FE -> Full-stack developer @ Bigbank July 2015 – July 2018
    • I started out supporting an in-house Wordpress theme, helping marketers create pages with a page builder. Worked with the design team to unify the corporate visuals across multiple countries and platforms (also implemented a pattern library). I then shifted bit more towards Node's full-stack world and worked with microservices and the Wordpress REST API to render its contents as a separate Vue application. I've learned heaps about virtualisation, dockerisation, CI & CD, security, authentication, and too much about front-end itself to even list.
      My last product in the company was a Vue-based component library, coupled with an in-house Express middleware and some internal vue-cli@3 plugins to help developers quickly spin up new applications & product instances.
  • Programming teacher @ Saue High school Autumn 2015 – Spring 2016
    • My job was to give my students a basic understanding of the principles of programming, whilst keeping it a fun learning experience. I teach Python mostly through games and active user input, so their first experience with programming wouldn't be stale.
  • Freelancing @ interwebs Started 2014
    • Programming has long been an interest of mine. Having also a soft spot for the artsy side in me—front-end development seemed like an excellent field to start gaining some experience.

In my free time I enjoy working on my motorcycle, disc golfing, learning BJJ & Blender, bouldering... and starring GitHub repos ⭐.

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