Open to work
Junior Web Developer at JELD-WEN Eesti AS, based in Rakvere, Estonia.
I build web applications, maintain IT infrastructure, and work on homelab and open source projects in my spare time.
Most recently I fixed a blocking call on Home Assistant’s event loop in the X-Sense integration, one of three contributions merged by maintainers of projects I do not own.
One employer, two roles.
Building web applications and keeping the IT infrastructure behind them running.
Three internships at the same company, which turned into the developer post above.
Six things I have built, newest first. Language, stars, dates and live links come from the GitHub API when the site builds.
Most Hyprland setups stitch together other people’s widgets, each with its own look and its own bugs. I wrote the whole shell in QML instead — bar, notifications, launcher, on-screen displays — so it behaves as one piece. It is what I run every day.
A dozen self-hosted services means a dozen bookmarks and no idea which one is down. Tailboard puts them all on one page with their status, so the homelab has a front door instead of a folder of links.
Every YouTube-to-MP3 site is an ad farm that wants your links on its server. This is one Go binary you run yourself: paste a playlist, get the files back, nothing leaves your machine.
Friends kept asking me to spin up Minecraft worlds, which meant an SSH session every time. Spawnpoint puts start, stop, backups and the server console in a browser, so they can do it without me.
Estonian electricity prices swing hour to hour, but Home Assistant could not see them. This pulls Elering’s hourly rates into a sensor, so an automation can hold the dishwasher until the cheap window.
Some keyboard layouts hide the pipe character behind a combination a laptop cannot produce. This binds it to Escape in fish, so a key nobody uses at a prompt types the one you need constantly.
Work reviewed and merged by maintainers of projects I do not own.
Every request to the recordings panel returned HTTP 500. A readiness check was shelling out to ffprobe on Home Assistant’s event loop, once per cached clip — 130 blocking-call errors in three minutes on an install with 85 clips. I traced the call chain, moved the check onto a flag recorded where blocking work is allowed, and the panel returned to HTTP 200 with none.
A device definition for the EZVIZ CS-T10C leak sensor. The generated fallback published a raw alarm bitmap; this maps it to a water_leak sensor and drops the alarm bit the ZCL zone type never sets.
The photograph for that same sensor, cut to the documentation’s 512 px transparent-PNG convention.
Three of nine coursework models. Tinkercad and SketchUp for the set exercises, Blender when the set tool was Windows-only. Printable designs are published on Printables.
The set exercise expected a tool that only runs on Windows, which I do not. I taught myself Blender over two weekends and modelled the tank instead — hull plating, riveting and the full running gear.
Built from a drawing across three lessons. SketchUp’s web version stalled once furniture came in from the model store, so I moved to the desktop application to finish it.
Gate, curtain walls, a moat and a bowman’s tower, worked up from a reference.
Vocational, then applied higher education.
Professional higher education in smart systems and applied information technology. Three and a half years at the Kohtla-Järve campus, taught in Estonian. Started August 2026, alongside the job.
AI-driven development, and the programming groundwork that makes it work: object orientation and the basics you need to judge whether generated code is any good. Less about producing code than directing the tools and catching what they get wrong.
Networks and hardware with hands on the kit: CAT 5e through CAT 7 terminated by hand, punched down to 110 blocks and keystone panels, and a rack of Cisco switches and routers cabled to be used afterwards rather than just graded. Also where I learned to coax a configuration page out of an access point too old for a modern browser to render one.
What I have actually put into production or into a homelab.