TOPCONF - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Lead Software Architect
- Position of Lead Software Architect at Tieto Latvia
Aivars Kalvāns holds the position of Lead Software Architect at Tieto Latvia and is working on Card Suite payment card system. During his more than 10-year career Aivars has been involved in number of projects related to credit card issuing, acquiring and utility payments through mobile phones, ATMs and POS-terminals. He enjoys solving both design and technical problems and likes to work on personal and Open Source projects using C++ and Python in his free time.
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- Head of Technical Solutions Division, CGI Estonia
Anna is a person with true management skills. She has a broad IT Project Management and Program Management experience. She has a lot of interesting and complex projects in her professional portfolio - starting from Software Development projects and ending with infrastructure projects such as DataCenter consolidation and migration. Anna is EPMA (Estonian Project Management Association) member and one of the co-founders. She works at CGI Estonia as a Head of Technical Solutions Division and also fulfills the role of Project Management Practice leader.
Job Titles:
- Freelance Software Developer
Job Titles:
- Senior Software Developer
Matti is a programming language geek always on the lookout for the most suitable paradigm for the current problem at hand. He has more than a decade of experience in the software business working as a consultant mainly in the telecommunications and public finance sectors. Currently he enjoys the madness of the startup world, helping to improve the life of all mechanical engineers. In his spare time he hacks Clojure and struggles with juggling.
Job Titles:
- Founder and CEO of GridGain Systems
Nikita Ivanov is founder and CEO of GridGain Systems, started in 2007 and funded by RTP Ventures and Almaz Capital. Nikita has led GridGain to develop advanced and distributed in-memory data processing technologies - the top Java in-memory computing platform starting every 10 seconds around the world today.
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- Head of Engineering / Nortal AS
Priit learned to program before he learned to play games with computer. Most of his career he has been in software developer role. Always searching for innovative ideas and eager to adopt new technologies.
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- ThoughtWorks As a Lead Consultant
Rachel Laycock works for ThoughtWorks as a Lead Consultant with 10 years of experience in systems development. She has worked on a wide range of technologies and the integration of many disparate systems. Since working at ThoughtWorks, Rachel has coached teams on Agile and Continuous Delivery technical practices and has played the role of coach, trainer, technical lead, architect, and developer. She is now a member of the Technical Advisory Board to the CTO, which regularly produces the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. Rachel is fascinated by problem solving and has discovered that people problems are often more difficult to solve than software ones.
Job Titles:
- Beta Program Manager / Microsoft
Raul is a professional with 7 years of experience in different roles around software development and testing. During this time he has gained substantial experiences in building and developing communities, outsourcing, software testing, in implementing Scrum, and in organizing events. He is also a corporate blogger on the Skype Garage blog and has been speaking on industry conferences. He is Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner. Soon he will have a Master Degree in Design and Development of Virtual Environments from University of Tartu. He is interested in innovative products which aim to change lives of tens of millions. Specialties: Organiazing, community building, software testing, outsourcing, blogging, public speaking.
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- Competence Manager, Swedbank IT
Toomas has over 15 years of professional experience in different roles to do with software development for Insurance, Telecommunications and Financial sector. He enjoys both working with people and solving complex technical issues. Main challenges for y2013 are bringing Euro to Latvia and driving organizational improvements in Swedbank IT.