Uku Tammet
Co-Founder & CTO at Handhold
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolUku Tammet is a software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling financial products, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO at Handhold where he focuses on how businesses buy software. He previously led engineering for Wise’s Send product—the largest money transfer product globally—progressing from product engineer to senior engineering lead. Uku blends hands-on engineering, product sensibility, and team leadership to deliver reliable systems for high-volume, regulated payments. Based in Tallinn, he pairs practical startup experience with academic depth from an MS in Computer Science at TalTech. Notably, he co-founded Align and has a background as a contractor and teaching assistant, signaling both entrepreneurial drive and mentorship instincts. He brings a pragmatic, product-first approach to solving complex payments and procurement problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
English, Estonian, Russian
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Github Skills (118)
circleci10
javascript10
animation10
notification10
spock10
translation10
gradle10
redux10
angularjs-components10
oauth10
react10
middleware9
neptune9
postgresql9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Tankenstein/encountr
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 39 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
gameencounter
Tankenstein/gotta
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
A feisty, minimal command line todos manager.
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 9 branches in 16 days
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