KarlisĀ Upitis
Co-Founder at Physical Addons
Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolKarlis Upitis is a co-founder and seasoned software engineer with over 11 years of experience, blending product-minded leadership with hands-on development of Blender addons and Python tooling. Based in Latvia, he architects core systems, manages customer feedback loops, and runs release planning for Physical Addons while wearing the many hats of a small company founder. He favors data-driven decisions, reusable patterns, and consistency, and purposely seeks new personal and technical challenges every few years to stay sharp. A front-end enthusiast and committed maker, he pairs a strong academic foundation in computer software engineering with practical expertise shipping creative developer-facing products. Colleagues describe him as results-focused yet process-oriented, able to get lost in deep technical work while keeping long-term relationships and user needs front and center. Outside of work he balances engineering with family life, bringing the perspective of a hands-on dad to his product and design choices.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Latvijas UniversitateMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Free University of Bozen - Bolzano
Latvian, English, Russian, Portuguese
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Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
karlisup/pattern-library
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
PhysicalAddons/web-pco
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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