Tarvi Pillessaar
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Nansen
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolTarvi Pillessaar is a seasoned Estonia-based Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating resilient, scalable infrastructure. He is currently at Nansen (since 2022), applying cloud-native practices on GCP with Python, PostgreSQL, and Terraform to support data-intensive services. Previously at SwissBorg, Starship Technologies, Glia, and Microsoft/Skype, he led infrastructure management, database administration, Kubernetes clusters, monitoring, and incident response in fast-paced environments. His career spans from Oracle DBA to modern SRE, delivering automation, on-call reliability, and developer enablement across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes with a strong focus on databases. Based in Estonia and holding a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Tartu, Tarvi combines technical depth with a pragmatic, production-focused mindset.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Hugo Treffner GymnasiumBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Tartu
Github Skills (200)
proxy10
mesh10
json-api10
pipe10
traefik10
vip10
python10
marathon10
zookeeper10
kubernetes10
load-balancing10
reverse-proxy10
consul10
etcd10
load-balancer10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tarvip/opentsdb-py
Oct 2022 - May 2024
Python client for OpenTSDB
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
opentsdbpythondatabasepython-client
tarvip/kafkakit-prometheus-metricsfetcher
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Prometheus metricsfetcher for kafka-kit
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
exporterkafka-kitprometheuskafkametrics
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