Summary
Risto Hinno is a data scientist and cybersecurity-minded educator with 11 years of experience applying NLP to extract decision-driving insights across public and private sectors. He blends hands-on product and development roles—most recently as Data Scientist/Product Manager at LHV and former Chief Feeling Scientist at Feelingstream—with policy and e-service reform experience from government roles at the Estonian Tax and Customs Board and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. As a guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, he teaches public sector project profitability and evaluation, translating technical methods into practical governance improvements. His background in taxation, an MBA in financial management, and a conversion Master’s in IT give him a rare mix of domain, business and technical fluency that helps bridge analytics, product strategy and cyber resilience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Taxation and Customs, Bachelor's degree, Taxation and Customs at Estonian Academy of Security Sciences
Master's degree, Conversion Master in IT, Master's degree, Conversion Master in IT at University of Tartu
English, Estonian, Russian