Kuldar Aas
Data Governance Programme Lead
Tartu, Tartu maakond, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolKuldar Aas is a data governance programme lead with 10 years of experience applying archival rigor to national-level digital policy and program delivery in Estonia. Trained in microelectronics and holding an MSc in Information Technologies from the University of Tartu, he moved from hands-on digital preservation roles at the National Archives to lead technical and governance work for European e-archiving initiatives and Estonia’s ministries. He combines technical leadership (technical lead/coordinator roles in CEF eArchiving and E-ARK) with practical programme management, translating preservation-focused metadata and provenance practices into scalable government data governance frameworks. Known for bridging archival standards and modern data stewardship, he brings a rare combination of deep domain knowledge in digital archives and formal engineering training. Based in Tartu, he also contributes to national data networks, reflecting a collaborative approach to public-sector data infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Nõo ReaalgümnaasiumMSc, Information Technologies, MSc, Information Technologies at University of Tartu
Estonian, English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (30)
mahjong10
specification10
x-plane10
archiving9
archives9
aip9
application-profile8
relational-databases6
open-data6
database5
cockpit5
ai5
dcat5
maintenance5
sip4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eark-project/information-package
Nov 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
DLMArchivalStandardsBoard/DAS-Board
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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