Viesturs Kavacs
Senior Backend Engineer at Mintos
Latvia
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Top SchoolViesturs Kavacs is a Senior Backend Engineer with 14 years of experience building and leading product-focused engineering efforts across startups and scale-ups from Latvia. Currently ensuring that investments worth billions of euros are accurately accounted for at Mintos, he combines rigorous backend craftsmanship with financial-grade reliability. He’s an entrepreneur at heart—co-founding Capsulink and founding Fuelephant to turn real-world problems into user-friendly products—while also serving as a technical lead on diverse engineering teams. His background spans high-throughput messaging systems, embedded telemetry for medical devices, and API-driven SaaS, reflecting a knack for resilient systems and pragmatic architecture. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and leadership, he brings a blend of startup grit, operational discipline, and a curiosity for turning data into dependable services.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Professional Programmer, Software Engineering, Associate's Degree, Professional Programmer, Software Engineering at University of Latvian00b pwn3rer, programming, logic, algorithms, n00b pwn3rer, programming, logic, algorithms at ProgmeistarsHigh School Diploma, 1337, specialization in IT and economics, A-level in Mathematics, Mathematical analysis, English, and Economics, High School Diploma, 1337, specialization in IT and economics, A-level in Mathematics, Mathematical analysis, English, and Economics at Riga State Gymnasium No. 1
English, Latvian, German, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (28)
scraper10
bots10
bot-detection10
php-api10
crawler10
robots-txt10
user-agent9
graph9
disposable9
d3js8
svg8
api8
datetime8
php7
react7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kavacky/disposable-email-domains
Jul 2019 - May 2020
A list of disposable email domains
Contributions:5 pushes in 9 months
emailnamespacedisposable-emaildisposableknockoutjs
kavacky/crawler-user-agents
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Syntactic patterns of HTTP user-agents used by bots / robots / crawlers / scrapers / spiders. pull-request welcome :star:
Contributions:4 pushes in 9 months
scrapersagentscrawlerssyntacticbots
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