Henry Teigar
Product Engineer at Lightyear
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Teigar is an engineering lead with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems and leading cross-functional teams from Tallinn, Estonia. He has driven technical strategy and execution at fintechs like Monese and Lightyear, owning critical services such as mass messaging, promotions/referral engines, and transaction rewards that handle millions of events daily. Equally comfortable in hands-on development and technical hiring, he has been a frequent interviewer and technical lead coordinating stakeholders, product teams, and external partners. A former founder of a personal finance startup, he brings product-minded engineering combined with deep Java/Spring and cloud microservices experience. Known for prioritizing clean, maintainable code and effective testing, he blends pragmatic architecture with an appetite for continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Natural Sciences, Natural Sciences at Gustav Adolf Grammar SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Tartu
English, Estonian
Github Skills (4)
moodle5
fastest2
racing2
reinforcement-learning1
Github contributions (5)
karlveskus/moodlebox
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 142 commits, 22 PRs in 3 months
moodlefastest
henryteigar/course-scheduler
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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