Asko Oja
Platform Engineering Area Lead
Tartu, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolAsko Oja is a platform engineering leader with three decades of software experience and 17 years in senior technical roles, currently directing Platform Engineering at Veriff from Tartu, Estonia. He combines deep expertise in database architecture, lifecycle automation and data protection—having built deployment tooling, PII obfuscation, and archival automation to meet compliance and scale to hundreds of databases. Earlier he cofounded and architected Fleep’s sync and multi-master data model, and at Skype he led the shift to sharded databases and co-developed open-source PostgreSQL tooling (SkyTools) for robust replication. Known for balancing modernization with cost-conscious operations, he repeatedly moves legacy systems to domain-separated, scalable platforms while mentoring engineering teams. Unusually, his background in applied mathematics informs pragmatic solutions to complex data consistency and performance problems.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at University of Tartu
Estonian, English, Russian
Github Skills (16)
queue9
database-replication8
replication8
postgresql8
vcenter5
esxi4
ipmi4
vsphere3
python3
utility3
vms3
vmware2
scripting2
database2
aws2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pgq/londiste
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Database replication on top of PgQ
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
database-replication
askoja/skytools-dev
May 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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