Taavi Laanemaa
Principal Engineer, Generative AI
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolTaavi Laanemaa is a Principal Engineer specializing in production-scale generative AI at Klarna with 11 years of engineering experience building core systems and developer tooling. He designed Klarna’s Balance History Model for time-travel queries over billions of financial events and built a company-wide LLM code-review bot from scratch, demonstrating both large-scale systems design and practical ML tooling. Comfortable moving fast and learning on the fly, he blends hands-on implementation (TypeScript-first, with experience in Java, R, C#) and leadership across backend, infra, and AI initiatives. Based in Stockholm and self-taught across several stacks, he frequently prototypes weekend AI experiments that often inform production work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
English, Estonian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
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volumes10
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kubernetes10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tlaanemaa/ZergBall
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
tlaanemaa/Yun-johnnyFive
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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