Toomas Römer
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Bolt
Tartu, Tartu maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolToomas Römer is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with 19 years of experience building products, teams and companies from early-stage startups to post-acquisition scale. Currently SVP of Engineering at Bolt, he combines hands-on coding instincts—evidenced by ongoing open-source contributions like UX and stability fixes to the Lizzie Leela Zero interface—with deep expertise in product, org design and board-level decision making. He led ZeroTurnaround through product development, growth and acquisition, then scaled engineering across multiple European hubs while staying close to technical trade-offs. Known for preferring to keep coding sparingly to avoid overpromising his teams, he balances pragmatic engineering judgment with people-first leadership and a playful outside-of-work life as a Baduk and tennis player.
19 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Tallinn English CollegeMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Tartu
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
java10
javas10
script10
sh10
error-handling10
shell10
cookie9
log4j9
front-end-development9
php9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
featurecat/lizzie
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Lizzie - Leela Zero Interface
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 16 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Toomas primarily focused on improving the user experience and stability of the Lizzie application, an interface for Leela Zero, by addressing potential null pointer exceptions and improving error messages. They modified Java code in `LizzieFrame.java` and `BoardRenderer.java` to handle cases where Leela Zero is not properly configured or connected. Additionally, the user made changes to the `make-leelaz.sh` script, fixing string comparison operators and removing debugging lines.
lizziezero
zeroturnaround/zt-zip
Nov 2011 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 review, 106 commits, 15 PRs in 10 years 11 months
zipjavazeroturnaround
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