Taavi Ilves
Software Architect & Lead Full-Stack Engineer at Portfellow
Estonia
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Top SchoolTaavi Ilves is a seasoned software architect and lead full-stack engineer with over 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating scalable web and back-end systems. Currently driving microservice architecture, security, and daily-banking reliability at Bigbank, he blends TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Kubernetes and real-time monitoring to deliver production-grade financial services. As a serial founder and CTO (Portfellow, Golive, 7Blaze) he pairs product-minded engineering with automation, integrations and performance work for SaaS and marketing platforms. He also audits source code and consults on secure, testable architectures, drawing on early entrepreneurial success building one of Estonia’s largest social sites as a teen. Taavi balances practical implementation with architecture-level thinking and an investor’s eye—publishing and teaching about investing and product strategy through his Off The Record community. Based in Estonia, he favors innovative tech and measurable outcomes, emphasizing security-first design in customer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at TalTech – Tallinn University of TechnologyBachelor of IT Systems Development Computer Programming/Programmer General, Bachelor of IT Systems Development Computer Programming/Programmer General at Estonian Information Technology CollegeMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Tartu
English, Estonian
Github Skills (52)
variants9
launchdarkly8
unleash8
sdk8
simplify7
capistrano7
php7
chinese-simplified6
feature-flags6
feature-toggle6
yii6
continuous-deployment6
collaboration5
devops5
dockerfile5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ilves/finance-library
Oct 2015 - Nov 2020
Librari for financial calculations
Contributions:47 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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ilves/java-bondora-api
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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