Madis Kaal
Space Center Engineer at Nomad Holdings OÜ
Estonia
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Top SchoolMadis Kaal is a versatile Space Center Engineer and seasoned embedded systems software developer with over 30 years of hands-on experience across telecommunications, cloud services, and nanosatellite platforms. He combines deep low-level expertise in C/C++, assembly and microcontroller firmware with higher-level Python and database (PostgreSQL/PL/pgSQL) tooling to deliver end-to-end embedded and backend solutions. Madis has driven cost and performance improvements at scale—halving cloud costs and optimizing video-processing pipelines—while also designing core protocols and services during a long tenure at Skype and Microsoft. He led on-board software for TalTech cubesats and built ground-station tooling, reflecting a rare blend of space systems know-how and production software practice. As founder of Nomad Holdings and a continual practitioner of embedded hardware design, he brings entrepreneurial initiative and system-level thinking to multidisciplinary engineering challenges. Based in Estonia, he pairs pragmatic optimization skills with a knack for inventing compact, efficient protocols and architectures not obvious from typical cloud or embedded resumes.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
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Estonian, English, Russian, Finnish
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Github Skills (14)
image-processing10
deep-learning9
opencv9
computer-vision9
rtl-sdr5
z803
assembler2
encoder2
modem2
vga2
metal1
simulation1
bare-metal1
soundcard1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mastmees/rs485
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
mastmees/silicon_radio
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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