Marek Tihkan
CTO at Dashbird
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolMarek Tihkan is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Tallinn with 17 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems. He has led architecture and engineering at Dashbird since 2018, helping companies design and scale serverless applications and observability tooling. His background spans hands-on engineering, team leadership and product-focused architecture at companies like Testlio, Toggl and GrabCAD, giving him deep practical knowledge of SaaS and distributed systems. Trained in both IT systems development and graphic design, he blends technical rigor with an eye for usable product experiences. Known for turning complex operational challenges into pragmatic serverless solutions, he combines startup grit with long-term platform thinking.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Estonian Academy of Artsdiploma IT Systems Development, diploma IT Systems Development at Estonian Information Technology College
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Github Skills (24)
code-coverage6
domain-driven-design6
integration-testing6
ruby-on-rails6
tdd6
nunit6
jquery6
clustering5
throttling5
rate-limiting4
toggl3
cruisecontrol3
scheduler3
ruby2
rails2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marektihkan/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:19 pushes in 7 years
marektihkan/Arc
Mar 2009 - Jan 2011
Contributions:99 commits in 1 year 10 months
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