Toms Seisums is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and cloud-native products, now serving as Head of Engineering in Riga. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise—from early front-end work and open-source contributions to Semantic UI—with a track record of leading multiple SCRUM teams and delivering 50+ end-to-end solutions. Known for coaching, training, and improving developer experience, he has repeatedly modernized stacks (Laravel/jQuery → React/TypeScript/Next.js, microservices, Kubernetes) and driven high-quality execution across startups and games industry projects. He’s equally comfortable shipping UI fixes and designing backend data pipelines, and brings a growth mindset and a knack for exposing problems and honing them into pragmatic solutions. An early coder who started with HTML/PHP at age six, he pairs technical curiosity with a people-first leadership style and a sense of humor.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Basic education, Basic education at Āgenskalna Valsts Ģimnāzija
Dropped out, Computer Programming, Dropped out, Computer Programming at Rīgas Tehniskā Koledža
Semantic is a UI component framework based around useful principles from natural language.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Toms primarily focused on refining UI components within the Semantic UI framework. Their contributions involved addressing button color inheritance issues, correcting icon positioning within menus, and resolving sizing/positioning problems for action buttons within menus. Additionally, the user made adjustments to message component margins and border radius, ensuring proper visual layout and behavior.
Contributions:12 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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