Cal Herries
Software Engineer at Cal Herries Consulting
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolCal Herries is a software engineer with seven years' experience applying data science and engineering to hard problems in transportation and logistics. He has shipped backend features and bug fixes for the popular open-source analytics platform Metabase and worked with Clojure, TypeScript, Python, and SQL across startups and scale-ups. His background spans pricing and forecasting roles at freight platforms (Uber Freight, sennder) and hands-on engineering at Metabase and Newsroom AI, giving him a rare blend of production ML/pricing intuition and backend systems craftsmanship. Based in Tallinn and available for hire globally, he runs his own consulting practice and maintains a public portfolio at calherries.com. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s comfortable moving from low-level optimizations (C/Python early work) to shaping product-facing analytics and email/BI infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Engineering Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Engineering Science at University of Auckland
Italian, English
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Github Skills (19)
back-end-development10
clojure-cli10
clojure10
apidoc9
api9
database8
databases8
editors7
sql-db7
sql7
editor7
haskell6
google-sheets6
excel6
tailwindcss6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2735 reviews, 397 commits, 1001 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cal primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Metabase project. They were involved in implementing new email settings for emails, including features such as reply-to and from-name settings. They also worked on fixing bugs related to query parameters for native questions. The code changes suggest a focus on improving the system's core functionality.
business-intelligenceembedded-analyticsanalyticsbusinessintelligencedashboard
calherries/site
Mar 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 4 years 7 months
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