Summary
Sander Tiganik is a Staff Engineer from Tartu, Estonia with 11 years of experience designing and implementing backend services and a decade of hands-on Go development — he admits to enjoying every "if err != nil" he’s written. His career spans startups and engineering teams at companies like Clarifai, Bottlepay, Guardtime and RELEX, where he focused on low-level algorithms, protocol work and building reliable production systems. Sander pairs deep implementation skills with curiosity about infrastructure, deliberately learning the layers beneath hosted tooling to avoid black boxes. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Tartu and brings a practical research background from academic and voting-technology projects, giving him a blend of rigor and product-facing delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science
Estonian, German, English