Karen Ofljan
Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolKaren Ofljan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Tallinn with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack and backend systems across startups and scaleups. Currently at Zendesk after leading technical and product-heavy engineering at Pactum AI, she excels at taking features from design to production, including CI/CD, AWS infrastructure, observability, and SQL schema design. Her background spans teaching and mentoring—having lectured full-stack courses and supported university Python students—so she combines strong technical delivery with clear knowledge transfer. Karen is comfortable modernizing legacy codebases and shipping data-driven product work, and she has a habit of contributing practical learning materials and sample projects (see her java-language-basics repo) that help onboard others.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
Russian, English, Estonian
Github Skills (18)
refactoring8
testing7
jsonwebtoken6
nest5
nodejs5
java5
javascript4
jwt4
nestjs3
typescript3
code-standards2
web-application2
admin2
python2
react2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KOflyan/json-unpacker
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
tutinformatics/refactoring
Mar 2018 - Jul 2021
Code that needs testing, refactoring into smaller parts and adherence to clean code standards
Contributions:2 PRs in 3 years 5 months
smalleradherencetestingpartsclean
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