Jarmo Pertman is a pragmatic software engineer and two-time co-founder with 17 years of experience building production-ready systems across Ruby, Python, Java, Go, Elixir and JavaScript. He favors the right tool for the job over trends, bringing pragmatic engineering judgment honed at Codeborne and Swedbank Estonia into his startups Solutional OÜ and Eudris. An active contributor to the Watir project, he has deep test automation expertise—improving cross-browser test suites, fixing bugs and hardening element-level behavior. Based in Estonia, he combines hands-on coding with product-minded leadership and an appetite for simple, maintainable solutions. Outside work he pursues photography, a hobby that informs his attention to detail and composition in software design.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Information Technology at Estonian Information Technology College
Contributions:123 commits, 29 comments, 14 issues in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jarmo primarily contributed to the test suite for the Watir project, focusing on ensuring cross-browser compatibility and correct behavior of various web elements. They added and updated tests for element collections, button attributes (e.g., #src, #style), form events, and file fields, incorporating guards to handle browser-specific differences. The user also addressed bugs and refactored existing tests for clarity and maintainability, demonstrating expertise in test automation and understanding of Watir's API.
Contributions:138 commits, 17 pushes, 24 comments in 7 years 7 months
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