Kaido Kert
Tech Lead Manager at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaido Kert is a seasoned tech leader and embedded systems specialist with over 25 years of technical experience and 13 years in leadership roles, currently serving as Tech Lead Manager at YouTube working on the Cobalt web runtime. He has a strong track record bringing hardware, firmware, cloud services and consumer-facing applications from prototype to production—co-founding Blossom and shepherding its acquisition by Scotts Miracle-Gro—then scaling IoT R&D as Director at Scotts. His career spans deep embedded engineering and partner integration with top OEMs at Microsoft and Skype, where he adapted core communications stacks to constrained platforms and launched SDKs for third-party developers. Based in San Francisco, Kaido combines hands-on low-level expertise (cryptography, RTOS, resource-constrained optimizations) with product leadership across startups and large enterprises, and is known for moving cross-disciplinary teams rapidly from concept to manufactured product.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Tallinn Polytechnic School
Estonian, English, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
2,211reputation
343kreached
53answers
3questions
Github Skills (200)
msgpack10
automation10
remote-execution10
cpp10
cbor10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
bluepill10
playback10
event-stream10
vagrant10
vod10
samd2110
json10
windows-desktop10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
kaidokert/fixed-bigint-rs
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Fixed-size big integer implementation for Rust
Contributions:13 releases, 3 reviews, 30 commits in 1 year 1 month
bignumrustintegerbig-integerbigint
kaidokert/cpp_youtube_channels
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Listing of C++ Youtube channels for conferences and user groups
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
groupscppyoutube-channelsyoutubechannels
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