Mart Roosmaa
Staff Engineer at Solaris SE
Benitachell/Poble Nou de Benitatxell, el, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolMart Roosmaa is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling, currently responsible for production reliability at Solaris SE. He is a polyglot senior developer who moves comfortably between Go, Rust, and mobile/backend stacks, and has led engineering teams and startups as a founder and CTO. Mart’s open-source work includes meaningful contributions to the Rust-based Sōzu HTTP proxy, where he improved upgrade workflows and refactored command handlers to make runtime management safer and clearer. He combines hands-on implementation with architectural thinking—helping companies pick the right frameworks, optimize costs, and scale backends from his BitterFudge advisory experience. Based in Spain and trained in physics at the University of Sheffield, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach informed by both product and infrastructure roles. Colleagues describe him as someone who surfaces hard-to-see operational risks and turns them into maintainable, automated solutions.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physics, BSc Physics at The University of Sheffield
English, Estonian
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Github Skills (20)
http-proxy10
rust10
proxy9
http9
screen9
cli8
performance-analysis8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
performance-monitor8
security7
android-ndk6
orientation6
named-pipes6
android6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
sozu-proxy/sozu
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy, configurable at runtime, fast and safe, built in Rust. It is awesome!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mart primarily focused on improving the upgrade command within the Sōzu proxy. Their contributions involved reworking the upgrade functionality to replace workers one by one, enhancing the output of the upgrade command for better readability, and correcting the proxy's behavior when it returned nothing. The user also unified command handler signatures, indicating a focus on refactoring and improving the command-line interface of the proxy. These changes demonstrate a focus on the proxy's internal workings and management capabilities.
configurableproxyrustsecurityruntime
roosmaa/XamGuard
Mar 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
androidxamarinxamarin-formsxamarin-androidbuild-process
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