Karl Tarvas
Senior Software Engineer at Wise
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolKarl Tarvas is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering lead based in Tallinn with 11 years of experience building and shipping frontend-focused products and leading UX/UI teams. He has progressed from full-stack and frontend roles to technical leadership at SUSE and now works at Wise, combining hands-on React/TypeScript development with team mentorship and product-minded design. Karl contributes to notable open-source work like the Uyuni project, where he focused on improving UI/UX, password autocompletion, unit testing React components, and migrating code from Flow to TypeScript. He also brings entrepreneurial experience as CEO of his own company, which sharpens his delivery and stakeholder management skills. Known for bridging design and engineering, he excels at simplifying complex interfaces while maintaining testable, maintainable front-end code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Tartu
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
es6-promise10
css10
typescript10
front-end-development10
vuejs210
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typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
twitter-bootstrap9
unit-testing9
jquery9
signalr9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
uyuni-project/uyuni
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Source code for Uyuni
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:763 reviews, 479 commits, 539 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Karl appears to have primarily focused on front-end development within this repository for Uyuni, contributing to the UI and user experience. The commits demonstrate a focus on addressing issues related to password autocompletion and implementing unit testing for React components. Furthermore, the user has been involved in simplifying the login page, and migrating several modules from Flow to Typescript.
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Etheryte/uyuni
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Source code for Uyuni
Contributions:28 PRs, 1287 pushes, 340 branches in 4 years 7 months
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