Joel Kunst
Founder at Software Development Academy
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Kunst is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-availability, real-time systems and founding multiple startups from concept to product. Based in Tallinn, he has led teams at Microsoft—growing a PSTN routing team, reducing incidents fourfold—and previously improved unit economics and cross-team collaboration at Starship. Joel blends hands-on engineering, architecture, and hiring expertise with coaching and teaching experience, guiding newcomers to junior developer level while scaling engineering organizations. He holds advanced technical and business credentials (MS/PhD studies in computer science and an MBA) and has a background in music, which surfaces in his disciplined, creative approach to problem solving. As a solo-founder at LaSearch he continues to wear product, code, and growth hats, favoring pragmatic experimentation over dogma.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at Estonian Business SchoolHighschool Violloncello, Highschool Violloncello at Music School of Blagoje BersaCoaching, Coaching at Erickson Coaching InternationalMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and ComputingPhD of Computer Science Computer Science, PhD of Computer Science Computer Science at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
English, Japanese, German, Estonian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
Github Skills (111)
hstore10
pos9
currency9
plutus9
cli9
ada9
cardano9
cryptocurrency9
database8
sql8
session-management8
chatgpt8
haskell8
emberjs8
esoteric-language8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
7sedam7/comma-remove_mime_deprication_warning
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Remove "DEPRECATION WARNING: Accessing mime types via constants is deprecated." warning
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
mime-typessqffiletypedeprecationmime
7sedam7/krafna
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Obsidion dataview plugin-like tool for command line.
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 75 pushes in 27 days
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