Kristian Saarela
Senior Software Engineer at eAgronom
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolKristian Saarela is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on full‑stack experience, known for moving teams from prototypes to production-grade systems across fintech, ConTech, telecoms, and interactive media. He combines deep JavaScript, React, Node.js and PHP expertise with a strong focus on developer productivity—building CI/CD pipelines, remote caching, automated testing and observability to harden delivery flow. At startups he’s repeatedly owned architecture and AWS infrastructure, led small teams, and partnered with executives to align technical direction with business goals. Notably, he led a fintech migration from a PHP monolith to Node.js microservices, improving risk tooling and automations, and enjoys tackling legacy modernization and resilience at scale. Now based in Tallinn, he’s working toward a Staff Engineer role where he can drive platform modernization and long‑term engineering strategy.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Tarkvara ja andmebaaside spetsialist Information Technology, Tarkvara ja andmebaaside spetsialist Information Technology at Tartu Kutseharidus Keskus
Estonian, English
Github Skills (12)
linux9
macos9
js9
javascript9
windows9
nodejs9
rocket8
api6
firebase6
http-request6
cli5
http-client3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chyeah/portal
Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:13 commits in 4 days
kristiansaarela/test
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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