Tarvi Pillessaar
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Nansen
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolTarvi Pillessaar is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years in production engineering and over seven years focused on SRE, currently shaping resilient cloud infrastructure at Nansen from Estonia. He has built and operated large-scale, highly available systems across GCP and AWS, with deep expertise in Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Terraform and Python. His background spans mission-critical roles at startups and major platforms—managing online databases at Skype/Microsoft and driving infrastructure and automation at Starship, SwissBorg and Glia. Tarvi repeatedly designs pragmatic solutions for monitoring, tracing, messaging and secure service access, and is comfortable on-call for 24x7 services. Notably, he combines a strong database pedigree (Oracle and PostgreSQL) with modern cloud-native practices, bridging legacy reliability with automated infrastructure-as-code. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Tartu and prefers solving thorny operational problems over flashy tech trends.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Hugo Treffner GymnasiumBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Tartu
Github Skills (200)
reverse-proxy10
python10
marathon10
proxy10
zookeeper10
consul10
mesh10
letsencrypt10
golang10
ansible10
kubernetes10
slack-integration10
load-balancing10
json-api10
etcd10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tarvip/opentsdb-py
Oct 2022 - May 2024
Python client for OpenTSDB
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
opentsdbpythondatabasepython-client
tarvip/kafkakit-prometheus-metricsfetcher
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Prometheus metricsfetcher for kafka-kit
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
exporterkafka-kitprometheuskafkametrics
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