Priit Laes
DevOps Engineer at Intertrust
Estonia
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Top SchoolPriit Laes is a DevOps engineer with 19 years of hands-on experience spanning cloud, embedded systems, and electronics, currently focused on infrastructure at Intertrust in Estonia. He blends systems-level thinking from a background in theoretical physics and computer engineering with pragmatic software craftsmanship in Rust and Python. Priit has a strong open-source track record, contributing to widely used projects like Flask and SQLAlchemy and doing low-level driver work in the Rust embedded ecosystem (embassy). His career covers security and identity at Swedbank, build-and-release engineering for FreeCAD, and integration work in gaming, showing a habit of stabilizing complex, cross-platform systems. Known for tackling hardware anomalies and build quirks, he often sits at the intersection of cloud services and constrained devices—fog computing in practice. He brings a bias for reliability and documentation, turning subtle fixes and test improvements into lasting platform stability.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer and Systems Engineering, BSc, Computer and Systems Engineering at TalTech – Tallinn University of TechnologyTheoretical Physics, Theoretical Physics at Tartu Ülikool
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
dependency-management10
python10
testing10
cmake10
embedded10
emulation10
flask10
nosql10
gstreamer10
async10
flask-sqlalchemy10
flask-ask10
select210
latex10
sql10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
pallets-eco/flask-admin
May 2012 - Aug 2015
Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Priit contributed significantly to the Flask-Admin project by enhancing the administrative interface. They refactored and improved the documentation, particularly for API references and custom form elements. Their contributions also involved the integration of Select2, a more advanced select widget, replacing the older Chosen library, and resolving related styling issues. Furthermore, they added features such as the ability to override the return URL after a form submission.
pythonflaskuwsgiextensibleadministrative
FreeCAD/FreeCAD
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
Role in this project:Software Engineer (Build & Release Engineering Focus)
Software Engineer (Build & Release Engineering Focus)Contributions:10 reviews, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Priit's commits primarily focus on build system maintenance and dependency management within the FreeCAD project. They addressed build issues by adjusting dependencies on various libraries like Boost and other workbenches. The user also made contributions to regression tests, demonstrating a focus on code quality and preventing future issues. Their work likely contributed to the stability and cross-platform compatibility of the FreeCAD build process.
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