Lauri Koobas
Head Of Data
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolLauri Koobas is a Head of Data with 15 years focused on data roles across fraud prevention, robotics, fintech and logistics, and over 25 years in tech overall. He builds and leads modern data platforms (Databricks, dbt, Unity Catalog, Looker) while driving data-informed culture, access controls, and developer education. Lauri is also an entrepreneur and community builder—founding Application Tracker to help data professionals manage careers, organizing Tallinn Data Week, and co-hosting an Estonian data podcast. His background in clinical psychology informs a pragmatic, human-centered approach to career frameworks and team development. Notably, he translates large-scale operational challenges (from prototypes to petabytes and thousands of robots) into repeatable platform principles and training programs. Based in Tallinn, he blends hands-on engineering, product thinking and career-design advocacy to help data teams and people make intentional choices.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Nõo ReaalgümnaasiumMaster's Degree, Clinical Psychology, Master's Degree, Clinical Psychology at Tallinn University
Estonian, English, Russian
Github Skills (115)
python10
ipython10
multi-user10
jupyter-notebook10
scheduler9
automation9
mlops9
etl9
orchestration9
jupyterhub9
machine-learning9
jupyter9
apache9
data-science9
monitor9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
starship-technologies/gobag
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Go programming language ROS bag parser
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 8 commits in 1 year 7 months
golanggorosparserbag
laurikoobas/DEV204x
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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