Sander Saarend
Senior Software Engineer at Eribyte OÜ
Estonia
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SeniorSander Saarend is a Senior Software Engineer and product-minded generalist with 12 years of experience building and operating production software from concept to deployment. He blends hands-on implementation and tech leadership—currently at Bolt and as partner of a small contract team at Eribyte—thriving in empowered teams with strong user feedback loops. His background spans startups and enterprises (Playtech, Pactum AI, Nortal) and includes contributions to notable open-source projects such as the rust-sdl2 bindings, showing familiarity with low-level systems and Rust lifetimes. Pragmatic and collaborative, he prefers end-to-end ownership and mentoring while keeping a small, nimble team available for focused contract work.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Estonian
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Github Skills (14)
bind10
binding10
rust10
api-design10
sdl10
system-programming9
angular-resource6
angular-ui-router6
html6
nginx6
excel6
python6
angularjs6
flask6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
SDL2 bindings for Rust
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sander primarily focused on modifying the `rust-sdl2` library's codebase. Their commits involved adding lifetimes to `Surface` and `Renderer`, updating the use of `Texture::from_ll`, adjusting `Window::new` to take a context, and modifying the mutability of the renderer. Further contributions include deriving `Clone` for mixer-related structs. These changes suggest involvement in the core SDL2 bindings.
rustsdlsdl2
sunaurus/lemmy-ui-next
Mar 2024 - May 2024
Alternative frontend for Lemmy. Built with Next.js.
Contributions:18 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 1 month
lemmylemmy-clientlemmy-ui
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