Janno Siilbek
R&D Lead at Veriff
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolJanno Siilbek is an R&D Lead based in Tallinn with 11 years of professional experience and a career that blends hands-on software development, founding startups, and executive technology leadership. He has led engineering and product efforts from early-stage companies to scale-ups, including roles as Founder/CTO of Yera, CEO of Mindly, and CTO at Inbank, before joining Veriff to drive research-led innovation. Known for a research-oriented mindset, he draws inspiration from observing natural systems to invent practical technical solutions and repeatedly iterate on new ideas. Comfortable across the stack, he combines software craftsmanship with strategic leadership, having built and led engineering teams since the early 2000s. His background in IT management and repeated founder experience give him both operational rigor and an experimental, inventor’s approach to R&D. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful tinkerer who turns curiosity about how things work into tangible products and platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree IT Management, Bachelor's degree IT Management at Estonian Business SchoolHigh school, High school at Viimsi keskkool
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jannosiilbek/x_road
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 months
MindlyTech/mindlytech.github.io
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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