Summary
Tanel Mae is a Cloud Platform Tech Lead and Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading platform efforts at AlphaSense. He is a pragmatic generalist who moves quickly between Go, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform to deliver scalable, secure and cost-optimized systems across AWS, GCP and EKS. His background spans hands-on backend development, distributed systems and developer experience leadership, with startup co-founder experience designing geographically distributed services and SDKs. Known for improving developer workflows and operational reliability, he also brings uncommon context from a humanities education in political science, which informs clear communication and cross-team alignment.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) International Relations, Master of Arts (M.A.) International Relations at Tallinn University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government at University of Tartu
English, Estonian, Finnish