Tõnu Samuel
Chief Technology Officer at bitgrit
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolTõnu Samuel is an experienced technology leader and serial founder with roughly a decade of focused experience in CTO and innovation roles spanning startups, academia, and international ventures. He combines deep hands-on engineering roots—from early contributions to MySQL and embedded/microelectronics work—to leading and scaling teams across Europe and Japan, including building a 100+ headcount company. Skilled in robotics, computer and network security, and product R&D, he pairs technical breadth with customer-facing credibility (written recommendations from key clients). He currently leads engineering at bitgrit after founding Solaride and serving senior technology roles at DataGateway and Planetway. An interesting aside: he was MySQL employee #2 and still appears in MySQL's SHOW AUTHORS, reflecting long-standing open-source pedigree. Based in Tallinn, he blends entrepreneurial grit with practical, security-minded engineering.
9 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Tallinn Secondary Science School
Estonian, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
2,867reputation
1.6mreached
59answers
11questions
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Github Skills (63)
unobtrusive10
user-friendly10
pinning10
ipfs10
desktop-application10
menubar10
ethereum10
blockchain10
p2p10
desktop9
linux9
paper9
stereo9
profiling9
golang9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tonuonu/json-logic-cpp
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Build complex rules, serialize them as JSON, and execute them in C++
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
cppserializationserializecomplex-rulesrules
tonuonu/awesome-ipfs
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Useful resources for using IPFS and building things on top of it
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 months
ipfson-top
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