Chris Raastad
Chief Operating Officer
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolChris Raastad is a pragmatic software leader and COO with nine years of hands-on engineering experience who specializes in backend systems, big data, and cloud-native services. A QA-turned-developer, he’s obsessive about clean, testable code and thrives on refactoring “untestable” legacy systems to eliminate technical debt and red builds. He has built mission-driven products from prototype to scale—ranging from fintech AML/KYC pipelines at TransferWise to scooter-share platforms, developer CI/CD tools, and nuclear fusion research SaaS—and now applies that craft to scaling Pangia as an AI-native organization. Comfortable across Python, PHP, Java and Postgres, he pairs product sensibility with operational rigor to connect decisions, data, and execution using modern CI/TDD/BDD practices. His background in cybersecurity and Fulbright research informs a security-first mindset, and he uniquely blends computational thinking with people-focused leadership to reduce busywork and keep teams shipping.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of WashingtonAI Mastery, AI Mastery at MindvalleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tumwater High SchoolExchange Program, Mathematics, Exchange Program, Mathematics at Budapest Semesters in MathematicsMaster of Science, Cyber Security, Master of Science, Cyber Security at TalTech – Tallinn University of TechnologyMaster of Science, Cyber Security, Master of Science, Cyber Security at University of Tartu
English, Estonian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
deepcopy10
testflight10
continuous-integration10
codemagic10
android10
flutter10
ios10
react-native10
google-play10
yaml9
dart9
two-way9
realms9
geofencing9
cicd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
siilats/traccar-php
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Swagger generated PHP client for TracCar
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 6 months
php-clienttraccarphpopenapiswagger
Woodruff-Scientific-Ltd/PyFECONS
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 14 PRs in 7 months
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