Magnus Hiie
Principal Software Engineer at Founders Pledge
Tartu, Tartu maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolMagnus Hiie is a Principal Software Engineer and serial founder with 11 years of recorded experience and a decades-long track record leading core systems and architecture for consumer and infrastructure products. He was an early Skype Core Team lead and architect, later building storage subsystems for Microsoft's experimental Midori OS and founding logistics-focused startups that applied predictive algorithms to freight movement. Currently at Starship Technologies, Magnus blends hands-on engineering with systems thinking to drive resilient, distributed software for robotics and logistics. His career spans roles from CIO and chief architect to CTO, reflecting a rare combination of product leadership, low-level systems design, and data-driven engineering. A generalist and quick learner based in Tartu, Estonia, he repeatedly moves between greenfield research projects and commercial productization, making complex distributed designs practical to operate. Less obvious: he pairs deep protocol and storage expertise with entrepreneurial instincts, enabling fast iteration from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Estonian Business School
Estonian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (196)
hot-reload10
scheduling10
mesos10
javascript10
editor10
yarnpkg10
cli10
kubernetes10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
go10
vscode10
package-manager10
docker10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
project-echo/lddi-contraction-hierarchies
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Contraction Hierarchies (with bidirectional version of Dijkstra's algorithm) technique for computing shortest path in graph.
Contributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 11 PRs in 2 years 4 months
techniquecontraction-hierarchiesdijkstrahierarchiesgraph
teleport/react-dnd-treeview
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 20 commits, 11 pushes in 10 months
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