Taivo Pungas
Chief Technology Officer at Pactum AI
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolTaivo Pungas is a CTO and seasoned technology leader with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products and engineering organizations from startup to enterprise scale. Currently leading technology at Pactum AI after progressing from VP Product Engineering, he combines hands-on expertise in AI agents and computer vision with product-focused delivery for Fortune 500 clients. He co-founded and led engineering at NFTPort and DataMob, and has advised multiple deep-tech startups, demonstrating a strong founder mindset and ability to translate research into production systems. His background includes advanced study at ETH Zürich and practical roles at Starship, Veriff, Skype and TransferWise, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and shipping-first operational experience. Known for bridging research, product and engineering, he often works at the intersection of perception, data science and scalable cloud systems. Based in Tallinn, he brings international experience plus a knack for turning complex ML prototypes into deployed, revenue-generating solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at ETH ZürichBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Tartu
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Github Skills (115)
annotations10
metadata10
datasets10
fact-checking10
dataops10
computer-vision10
nlp10
open-datasets10
image-annotation10
data-annotation10
plaintext10
data-quality10
open-source10
ethereum10
alphabetical9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
taivop/awesome-data-annotation
Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
A list of tools for annotating data, managing annotations, etc.
Contributions:4 reviews, 67 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 7 months
nlpannotationsdata-annotationimage-annotationcomputer-vision
fact-tutorial/fact-tutorial.github.io
Apr 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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