Osvalds Neiders
Senior Software Engineer at Whimsical
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
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Top SchoolOsvalds Neiders is a Senior Software Engineer based in Riga with nine years of experience focused on front-end engineering, particularly ClojureScript, re-frame and modern UI stacks. He currently builds product-facing frontend at Whimsical after shaping React + TypeScript UIs at Ubiquiti and leading web client efforts at FullContact (Contacts+), where he reduced bundle sizes and aligned multi-client architectures. Beyond coding, he organizes major Baltic frontend events (FrontCon, Frontend Meetup Riga), curating content and MCing—evidence of deep community ties and an eye for developer-facing topics. He has a track record of shipping under pressure (e.g., a volunteer e-parliament frontend delivered in three weeks) and prioritizes performance, reusable components and UX collaboration. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, Osvalds blends hands-on feature work with mentoring and product-minded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Latvijas UniversitateErnsta Glika Alūksnes Valsts ģimnāzija
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Github Skills (16)
frontend8
react8
reagent8
clojurescript7
re-frame7
e-mail6
php6
laravel6
rendering6
attachment6
hiccup4
clojure3
react-hooks3
android2
jekyll1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
osvalds/react-conway
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Conway's game of life with React Hooks rendering to canvas
Contributions:91 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
react-hooksrendering
Osvalds/irobot-web
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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