Juris Krikis
Director Of Engineering at FYUL
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
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Top SchoolJuris Krikis is a seasoned engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building high-performing teams and robust platform software across Europe, currently serving as Director of Engineering at FYUL. He remains hands-on—regularly coding in Scala, Rust, and TypeScript—and is a pragmatic advocate of functional programming for maintainability and developer satisfaction. Juris has hired and led organizations of 250+ engineers, created fair recruitment and career evaluation processes, and scaled distributed teams across multiple countries. His background spans platform engineering, event-sourced architectures, Akka, and cloud-native deployments, with a track record of stepping back into IC roles to unblock critical delivery. Fluent in English, Latvian and Russian, he pairs radical candor and empathy to find win-win solutions amid complexity. An entrepreneur at heart, he previously founded SaaS and high-throughput systems (including a site reaching millions of monthly views) and continues to sharpen his technical craft daily.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Business Administration, Masters Business Administration at Riga Business SchoolMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Latvijas UniversitateRīgas Valsts 1. Ģimnāzija
English, Russian, Latvian, French, Italian, German
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Github Skills (61)
messaging10
reactive10
enterprise-integration10
akka10
alpakka10
reactive-streams10
null-safety9
game-engine9
concurrent9
asynchronous9
java9
scala9
django9
stm9
game-development9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
evolution-gaming/typescript-bootcamp
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
TypeScript bootcamp
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 months
typescript
evolution-gaming/recruitment
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Recruitment homework tasks
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 11 months
djangorecruitment
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