Madis Väin
Software Engineer at Namespace
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolMadis Väin is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years’ experience building business-focused web applications and tooling from Tallinn, Estonia. He co-founded a budget-management startup and has served technical leadership roles while spending the last decade at small, high-impact teams that deliver revenue- and efficiency-driving software. Hands-on across back-end and DevOps, he contributed notable features and deployment work to the Exchange Rates API (DB backends, CORS, history endpoint, Nginx/Gunicorn/SSL setup). Comfortable translating business needs into production systems, he favors practical architectures that reduce costs and speed time-to-value. With a master’s background in engineering, he blends analytical rigor and entrepreneurial drive to solve real-world business problems.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Civil Engineering Technology/Technician, Master's degree, Civil Engineering Technology/Technician at Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
estonia, English, Russian
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Github Skills (20)
sanic10
postgresql10
python10
apidoc10
api10
redis9
gunicorn9
devops8
cloud-computing8
ansible-galaxy7
peewee7
dockers7
ansible7
docker7
django-admin6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
exchangeratesapi/exchangeratesapi
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Exchange Rates API
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:85 commits, 13 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Madis significantly contributed to the back-end development of the exchange rates API, implementing features for different database backends (SQLite, PostgreSQL). They introduced support for CORS, API improvements including Fixer.io compatibility and added a history endpoint. The user also focused on deployment, configuring the application with Nginx, Gunicorn, and Huey, adding support for SSL and a public website.
apiexchangeratescurrency-converterexchange-rates
madisvain/upcount
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 316 commits, 93 PRs in 3 years 11 months
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