Rihards Polis
Senior Software Engineer at Giraffe360
Adazi, Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolRihards Polis is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and data platforms across European tech companies. He blends modern JavaScript stacks (Node.js, React, Next.js, Webpack) and relational/search databases (Postgres, Elasticsearch) with prior big data expertise in Hadoop, Spark and Oozie, enabling both customer-facing products and scalable data pipelines. His career spans startups and scale-ups—Infogram, Prezi, memmo.me, Pet Media Group and now Giraffe360—showing a pattern of improving product-facing systems while migrating or integrating backend data workflows. Comfortable moving between frontend UX concerns and backend architecture, he’s repeatedly delivered pragmatic solutions that bridge analytics and engineering. Trained in computer engineering at Rīgas Tehniskā Universitāte, Rihards combines strong systems chops with a hands-on approach to shipping reliable, production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Rigas Tehniska Universitate
Github Skills (24)
consumption7
energy7
python5
event-handling3
twitch3
virtual-tabletop3
dice3
foundry3
rpg3
next-level3
launchpad2
django2
vtt2
streaming2
chat2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rtslab/EnergyBox
Sep 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
pythonenergy-consumptionconsumptionmodelling-toolmodelling
rihards99/EnergyBox
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 months
pythonenergy-consumptionconsumptionmodelling-toolmodelling
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