About me

Hi there! I'm a software developer with expertise in data science, web and app development, survey research, and game development. I feel comfortable with many programming languages and tools, such as Python, Kotlin, Javascript, GML, PHP, GDScript, C++, and R.

My recent experience includes developing a real-time interactive analytics platform, conducting opinion polling and modeling experiments, creating intuitive visualizations for complex data, and working on web and infrastructure development, building and maintaining data pipelines, and reactive backend development. I'm passionate about game development and enjoy creating engaging, interactive experiences.

I'm capable of quickly mastering new technologies and tools, which allows me to adapt to any situation and find innovative solutions to difficult problems.

Experience

Survey data management and analysis platform

2024 - ...

• Designed a low-cost survey data management and analysis platform, which...
• • is serverless (AWS Lambdas + API Gateway, S3 static hosting, Svelte)
  • offers near-realtime results on ongoing projects with data cleaning, weighting etc, with per project specifications
  • accepts connections to responder panels and different data sources
  • provides unified feature/variable management (with global metadata)
  • provides automated statistical analysis and insights on all features
  • provides a simple and intuitive interface for getting simpler and in-depth overviews
  • uses my realtime serverless aggregation engine for complex views and filters
  • is optimized to display large amounts of data dynamically in-browser with rapid load-times
  • uses Cognito for managing authorization per data feature and project

Center for Behavioral Research

2020 - ...

• Infrastructure development (Terragrunt, Docker, AWS etc)
• Building and upkeep of data pipelines (Airflow, Pandas, Tabular Preprocessor)
• Development of NLP models for analysing millions of news stories
• Experimental survey research and modelling
• Painless visualizations of complex data (Matplotlib, Echarts, Plotly, D3)
• Web development (React, Svelte)
• 2020-2023: Built aggregation engine for realtime interactive dashboards that includes a DSL (Spark, Pandas)
• 2020-2023: Reactive backend development (Spring Framework, Reactor)

Various hobby projects

2020 - ...

• Building a language model for targeted sentiment analysis on Estonian language
• Creating a casual RTS game inspired by Estonian mythology
• For terrain generation, I created a GAN-based AI model that replicates the features of Estonian nature based on data from the Estonian Soil Map
• Using Svelte, AWS Batch and Lambdas, I built a media aggregation and analysis tool

WebFoundation OÜ

2019 - 2022

• Multimedia creation
• Social media management
• Web development

Project: Tuvo

2012 - 2018

• Shader creation. 2D tile rendering, lights, physics etc (GLSL, HLSL)
• Networking engine
• Physics engine, where animated bodies make up the world
• Large scale chunked gameworld optimization and networking (link)
• Pixel art and animation
• Complex AI behaviour

Childhood projects

2010 - 2018

• 10+ minor indie games, some of which can be found here
• Experiments on creating the most optimized Minecraft-like world engine
• Built an optimized runtime graphics assets library for GML (link)
• Built DLLs for optimizing data structures in games