Reliability,
engineered.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Jun 2025 — Now

• Led the technical FinOps & DevOps analysis for onboarding multiple projects with the CTO and management — creating a new 15+ person engineering team and helping partners lower annual costs by up to >€3M
• Reduced product teams' operational costs by a further 60% vs. 2025 by fixing JVM memory and thread leaks at the architecture level across multiple products
• Technical lead for architecture across CARIAD and Group products, advising solution architects, senior engineers and managers
• Introduced progressive delivery and platform standards on AWS & Azure Kubernetes: Flagger, Argo Rollouts, FluxCD and centralized Helm charts
• Co-founded CARIAD Estonia's AI culture to raise team efficiency and keep service fees low
• Ran technical interviews for candidates worldwide — hired 10+ engineers and helped build 3 diverse teams together with leads
• Contributed to services written in Java, Kotlin, Go and Node.js

Site Reliability Engineer · May 2024 — Jun 2025

• Reduced operational costs by ~50% (>€1M) vs. 2024 by improving the architecture chain: databases, rate limiters, circuit breakers and gateways
• Cut build times by 70% for product teams with modern build and release practices
• Built end-to-end observability across a multi-product request chain with OpenTelemetry and New Relic
• Founded DevOps workshops and co-founded fire drills for operations teams
• Started a cross-department community for engineering enthusiasts

Freelance Mentor · Mar 2025 — Now

• Providing mentoring services for engineers and students to climb the career ladder

Contributor · Mar 2024 — May 2025

• Contributed to multiple open-source projects: Edu01 (Kood/Jõhvi), Gin (Go framework), WebCheck, Gofr and many more

Founder · Jul 2024 — Mar 2025

• Offered a unique mentorship approach (inspired by Kood/Jõhvi) for advanced learners who needed the missing details to get onboarded to real work
• Successfully onboarded 10/10 students into a new job or a higher position in their existing company

Founder · Jul 2024 — Nov 2024

• Founded an IT community giving junior developers their first hands-on, real-world project experience right after their studies
• Applied best programming practices to help future developers gain the knowledge and experience to land their first job

Site Reliability Engineer · Feb 2024 — Apr 2024

• Co-founded the LHV Group Cloud Chapter with the Head of Infrastructure, guiding the Group's move from on-premises to AWS-native
• Advised product teams across LHV Group on AWS architecture and best practices
• Built end-to-end observability with AWS-native tooling: CloudWatch, X-Ray, Aurora Performance Insights and CloudWatch Logs

DevOps Engineer · Oct 2023 — Jan 2024

• Led the migration that made LHV Insurance the first LHV Group company fully on AWS — delivering a 12-month project in 6 months
• Cut infrastructure costs by 85%, from €10,000 to €1,500 per month
• Rebuilt the platform from Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation and manual resources into Terraform, GitOps and ECS Fargate
• Built a self-healing, fully automated serverless platform developers run themselves — meeting all compliance and security requirements
• Reduced build and release times from hours to minutes; removed off-hours releases with rolling updates and canary deployments

Senior Platform Engineer / Technical Lead · Feb 2023 — Oct 2023

• Promoted to lead technical solutions with the platform team behind Estonia's national health information systems (Kubernetes & platform services)
• Replaced manual PostgreSQL operations with fully automated cluster management (Shell, Go, IaC), saving ~20 hours per week
• Moved MariaDB to TLS-secured Galera clusters with full observability
• Built end-to-end monitoring from network level to frontend RUM with ELK, Prometheus and Grafana
• Cut incident detection from hours to minutes with ELK ML alerts integrated into Jira & Rocket.Chat
• Wrote the disaster recovery plan and risk analysis for all platform services
• Built JESS, a company-wide terminal assistant turning routine multi-step tasks into a single command; mentored and trained platform engineers

Platform Engineer · Jun 2021 — Feb 2023

• Rebuilt Kubernetes management from manual CaaS to Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Rancher, RKE, vSphere), Ansible and GitOps with ArgoCD
• Migrated Kubernetes clusters with 4 TB of stateful data to new infrastructure with zero data loss
• Ran 8 Kubernetes clusters and core developer tooling: GitLab, SonarQube, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence
• Provided third-level support from Java debugging to Helm chart refactoring; partnered with observability & Atlassian teams on centralized CMDB and monitoring

Linux System Administrator · Apr 2020 — Jun 2021

• Managed 70+ servers for the Estonian Health Insurance Fund with Ansible and Git; supported X-Road, MISP and Atlassian services

Trainee · Jul 2019 — Dec 2019

• Worked on VMware NSX-T networking: BGP, NAT, gateways, T0/T1 routing and firewall rules
• Set up vSphere and vCenter environments with VLANs; maintained HP ProLiant servers remotely via iLO
• Ran monitoring with Zabbix and administered RHEL backup media servers