Andris Sprūds
Head Of Software Development at airBaltic
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndris Sprūds is a pragmatic software leader with 14 years of experience who currently heads a team of 11 developers at airBaltic, blending hands-on Scala and Java engineering with people management. He designs and delivers high-availability, near-real-time systems and has driven architecture and performance optimizations across the company website, payments platform and ETL processes. A longtime advocate of functional programming, concurrency and robust error handling, he pairs Scala (Akka, Play, Slick) expertise with deep Spring/Java EE, PHP and frontend (Vue.js) experience. Andris is comfortable across the stack—from NGINX caching and PostgreSQL tuning to CI/CD and containerised deployments—and values pragmatic TDD over dogma. His career shows a pattern of tackling the most evasive bugs and bottlenecks, often improving cache strategies and nightly ETL reliability in production systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Business Administration (Innovation and Business Creation), Master in Business Administration (Innovation and Business Creation) at Högskolan i JönköpingBachelor in Business Administration, Bachelor in Business Administration at Banku AugstskolaMaster in Economics (International Business Relationships), Master in Economics (International Business Relationships) at University of Latvia
English, Latvian, Swedish
Github Skills (27)
vuex7
javascript7
vue7
time-travel7
state-management7
clickstream5
analytics-tracking5
avro4
css4
java4
php4
nuxt-module4
fonts3
cms3
hdfs3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aspruds/Lab-Logs
Jan 2016 - Sep 2019
Angular2 / Typescript learning project
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
learning-projectlearning-typescriptangular2angulartypescript
aspruds/filter-tutorial
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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