Summary
Markus Punnar is a Principal Product Engineer with 8 years of experience building dependable systems across defence, customs and banking domains, currently leading payments and authorization platform work at LHV in Tartu. He has progressed from junior developer to systems architect, combining hands-on implementation with thoughtful architecture that supports a country-scale financial ecosystem. Markus excels at growing engineers, translating product goals into secure, maintainable designs, and prefers tackling long-lived, high-impact projects over quick wins. His background includes system architecture at Cybernetica and full-stack work in the Estonian Defence Forces, reflecting a strong blend of security-conscious engineering and practical delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who treats software as a lifelong craft—rooted in curiosity from his first attempts at building a game to designing the security backbone for modern banking products.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Univesity of Tartu
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Tartu