Andžs Pilskalns
Playout Engineer at Veset
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
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Top SchoolAndžs Pilskalns is a Playout Engineer based in Riga, Latvia, with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating broadcast workflows and studio systems. He blends technical pragmatism with user-centered design, insisting that tools and workflows be intuitive and easy to learn. At Veset he focuses on reliable playout automation, building processes that consider both technical constraints and human factors. Previously as CTO of Chaula TV he led system planning and administration, translating operational needs into maintainable architectures. An active contributor to front-end open-source work, he has improved UI/UX and responsive CSS for a popular Hugo theme, showing attention to detail beyond core broadcast engineering. He pairs an electrical and communications background with communications and media studies to bridge engineering and editorial perspectives.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Science (BS), Communication and Media Studies at Latvijas UniversitateBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, incompleted, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, incompleted at Rigas Tehniska Universitate
English, Russian, Latvian
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
hugo-theme10
responsive-design9
image-processing6
wordpress6
foreach6
php6
javascript6
fill6
edit6
image6
documentation4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vjeantet/hugo-theme-docdock
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Declination of @matcornic Learn theme to Hugo
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 16 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Andžs primarily focused on improving the user interface and experience of the Hugo theme. Their commits addressed UI enhancements by opening shortcut links in new tabs, compressing whitespace in the footer and menu, and adjusting the Mermaid diagram display to avoid conflicts with the rest of the HTML elements. They also refactored the CSS structure, shifting elements and introducing responsive design rules.
hugodeclinationroamresearchgardenhugo-theme
Pilskalns/f3-wcurl
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
F3 Wrapper for cURL to talk with external REST API
Contributions:6 releases, 24 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 2 months
rest-apiapirestcurl
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