Janis Miezitis
Backend Architect at Levelpath
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
Summary
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SeniorJanis Miezitis is a Backend Architect with 14 years of professional experience building resilient Rails-based systems and breaking monoliths into focused subsystems. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership and developer coaching, having led engineering teams at Workday and architected backend platforms at Levelpath. His domain expertise spans mobile health, payment integrations, search, and content publishing, with practical experience integrating diverse APIs and complex tree-structure queries. Janis is fluent in object-oriented design and also explores functional languages like Elm and Elixir, showing a taste for elegant, robust architectures. He pairs technical depth with technical sales and product-facing skills—comfortable pitching ideas and translating them into delivered software. Based in Riga, Latvia, he brings a rare mix of developer rigor, people leadership, and a history of founding and running teams.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Latvian, Spanish
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Github Skills (109)
rom-rb10
wysiwyg10
browser10
rich-text10
text-editor10
draft-js10
slate10
editors10
contenteditable10
rte10
rich-text-editor10
react10
editor9
javascript9
data-access-layer9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
janjiss/rom_factory
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 months
janjiss/conred
Sep 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:90 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
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