Jānis Peisenieks
Head Of Engineering at Whimsical
Riga, Latvia
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Top SchoolJānis Peisenieks is a Head of Engineering with 14 years of hands-on and leadership experience building product-focused, high-performing engineering organizations from early-stage startups to scale. Based in Riga, he combines deep backend engineering (Clojure, Java/Kotlin) and DevOps experience with a talent for hiring, mentoring, and creating calm cultures of craftsmanship and autonomy. At Whimsical he moved from being the second dedicated engineer to leading the entire engineering org, driving product collaboration with Design/Product and owning GDPR/CCPA compliance and SOC2 Type 2 certification and re-certification. Earlier roles span mobile app leadership (Android/iOS), embedded NFC solutions, and developer-facing QA contributions to well-known open-source projects like the Codeception testing framework. He balances strategic, regulatory, and operational priorities while still contributing code and technical direction, and has a track record of turning small teams into resilient, self-sufficient engineering units.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High school education General Studies, High school education General Studies at Āgenskalna Valsts ģimnāzijaMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Latvijas Universitate
English, Latvian, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
codeception10
webdriver10
testing10
php10
unit-test10
android-studio9
lombok9
integration-testing9
phpunit8
acceptance-testing8
in-app-billing6
google-play6
android6
analytics6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Codeception/Codeception
Sep 2013 - Mar 2015
Full-stack testing PHP framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jānis primarily contributed to the testing aspects of the Codeception framework. Their work involved implementing and testing new functionalities, such as `seeResponseIsXml` for XML response validation. They also fixed existing bugs, specifically related to the `submitForm` function within the WebDriver module, enhancing the framework's reliability. Furthermore, the user added several tests to cover various use cases like multiple select, text area, text, and radio button testing within the WebDriver module.
acceptance-testingend-to-endtestingphpbdd
FnTm/ofxstatement-lv
Mar 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 7 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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