Summary
Jürgen Kerstna is a seasoned system developer and software solutions architect with over a decade of experience designing data warehousing, semantic knowledge bases, and healthcare interoperability solutions. He has led large distributed teams and delivered pragmatic, cost-effective Big Data and OLAP solutions for MedTech and research infrastructure, leveraging RDF/OWL/SPARQL alongside industry standards like DICOM, HL7 and IHE. As founder of Vinge Free and head of development at KIBI, he combined domain-specific modeling and NoSQL/triple-store approaches to accelerate analytics and lower costs. His career includes driving enterprise architecture at global medical device firms and advising hospitals on real-time device data acquisition—work that blends applied math rigor (MSc) with hands-on systems engineering. Notably, he has translated semantic web theory into production-grade clinical analytics platforms, making complex interoperability practical for regulated healthcare environments.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Applied mathematics & Computer Science, M.Sc., Applied mathematics & Computer Science at Tartu Ülikool