Kristo Koert
Senior Software Engineer at Bolt
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolKristo Koert is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping robust systems across startups and scale-ups, currently at Bolt after a tech-lead role at Twilio. He brings strong functional-programming expertise—particularly in Clojure/Clojurescript and Reagent—paired with practical backend work in Rust and Python, and a solid foundation in Linux and automated testing. Kristo is an active open-source contributor who improved rust-analyzer’s project model and build resilience by hardening Cargo.toml discovery and error handling, showing attention to developer experience. Comfortable both leading teams and diving into low-level tooling, he combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with a passion for education and open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Estonian Information Technology College
English, Estonian, German
Github Skills (8)
error-handling10
filesystem10
rust10
file-operations10
fileio10
build-system9
rust-analyzer8
server8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 8 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Kristo primarily contributed to the `ra_project_model` and `rust-analyzer` crates of the repository, focusing on improving the project's build system and error handling related to the discovery of `Cargo.toml` files. They made several changes to enhance the robustness and clarity of the file search logic. Their contributions included refactoring code, correcting errors, and modifying the error handling mechanism to improve the overall developer experience.
rustlsp-servercompileridefront-end
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